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 ...

Anyone who uses both Linux and Windows knows the problem. You need a couple of files that are on the Windows partition, but you forgot to copy them to a floppy or to the server before rebooting to ...

You will be able to identify any new disks in place. The mount terminology comes from the days of large (in size, not necessarily space!) disks and tapes which were literally mounted and unmounted ...

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, ...

I'd like to be able to mount the partitions to scrape some of my data off of them, but have not found a way from within OS X, including the Darwin mount command.<P>Any thoughts? Any successes? Quote ...

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 ...