Whether you're installing Linux on a new system or adding new storage, there are plenty of commands to manage the disks on your system. These commands can help you get a handle on your hard drives and ...

I have a laptop with dual drives. The mainboard has failed, and I want to make a virtual image from the drives to run in VMWare (Fusion, technically). VMWare converter wants an operational system to ...

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 ...

I've got a system with six identical 4GB SCSI hard disks. They used to be part of a RAID5 configuration but I've disabled the RAID controller since it's largely unsupported (Mylex) and in this case ...