1. Overview This guide covers the entire process of adding a new disk, creating partitions, managing logical volumes using LVM (Logical Volume Management), and resizing filesystems in a Linux ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

Oracle released version 10.2.0.1 of the database (10g release 2) Oracle released version 2.0 of the ASM kernel driver and libraries Oracle released version 2.0 of the Oracle Cluster File System As you ...

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 ...