If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

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 ...

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 use it on servers and it has come through more than once, especially with VM's where our vsphere admins treat storage like rare and precious metals, though lately they have been a lot better to deal ...