In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

Hello all, I recently inherited a (critical database app) rhel 4 box running LVM across a SAN. Box behaves badly if someone "looks" at the SAN the wrong way. After some digging I found that the ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...

This guide delves into the intricacies of Disk Partitioning and Logical Volume Management (LVM), equipping you with the knowledge to optimize your Linux system's storage.

I'm running mythtv on a Fedora Core 4 box. All tv data lives on the /video partition, which I created as an LVM, with the hope of adding more disks to the LVM later.<BR><BR>I just installed a 200gb ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...