If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

For this issue we cover the Linux.Ars visit to the OhioLinux fest, LVM snapshotting with XFS for hot backups, Tomboy, and more. On October 2nd, Jorge Castro and I found ourselves on our way to the ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...