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 ...

Fdisk is a command-line menu-driven utility that is shipped with all Linux distributions to manipulate your disk partition table. When you get a fresh piece of the disk, you need to create partitions ...

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, ...