This short guide will show you how to create encrypted partitions on USB devices, external hard drives, and internal hard drives using the GNOME Disks tool found on popular Linux distributions. In ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

Lauren Malhoit explains how she extended her Linux partitions. I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...