or changing the partition layout of the disk it is on. When this happens, things can get ugly on Linux in a hurry, to say the least. Newer versions of Linux have an alternative partition ...

The UEFI boot process and disk layout. In order to boot a UEFI firmware system, there has to be an EFI boot partition on the disk. This is a relatively small (100MB or so is enough) FAT partition ...

For anything but a Linux partition, you should give its type; entering L lists them. Press [p] to list the current partition layout, either the existing layout from a freshly loaded disk or the ...

Have a bootable Linux USB recovery disk ready for system recovery, file access, and malware removal. Use it for managing partitions, troubleshooting, diagnostics, privacy, and security to maintain ...

It supports all Linux platforms just like KVPM. The layout of Visual LVM is combined with two parts. The menu bar on the left and the disk/LVM hybrid view on the top right show disk/VG information in ...

Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, "I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter's PC." I came to learn that some ...

VirtualBox doesn't automatically shrink Linux guest disks, but you can manually reclaim disk space by zeroing out data and compacting the volume. You should enable ...

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free ...

The ncdu command provides a convenient way to review files and the disk space being used on Linux systems, but the file sizes may appear a little strange at first. The ncdu command provides a fast ...