Linux (and Unix) have generally referred to disk partitions by their "traditional" device name, such as /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda5. However, this kind of name for a particular partition can (and will ...

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 ...

Device name: Linux disks are named sda, sdb and so on, with the partition's number added to the disk's device, so /dev/sda2 is the second partition on the first disk. 2. Mount point: Where 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 ...

When you buy a disk drive today, you likely will see "255 heads, 63 sectors, N cylinders" written on it. There are not really 255 heads in such a disk drive, but the drive identifies itself that way ...

The menu bar on the left and the disk/LVM hybrid view on the top right show disk/VG information in a logical layout. The lower right part is the detailed information of the object the mouse hover on.

VirtualBox lets you run Linux in a virtual machine, but doesn't automatically shrink guest volumes. Find out how to shrink them and save disk space.

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. Using the df (disk free) command.

The ncdu command provides a fast and very easy-to-use way to see how you are using disk space on your Linux system. It allows you to navigate through your directories and files and review what ...