As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to, well, give your computer more disk space. Ok, the concept is pretty logical but the process to make it work needs ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

[root@shgut1 ~]# uname -a Linux shgut1 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.unitrendsPAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 25 11:48:17 EST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This is a Unitrends backup appliance, and I do already have a ...

In another article in this issue of Linux Journal [page 84], I talk about my experiences with the new solid state drive (SSD) I installed on my laptop. One of the things I didn't mention in the ...