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, ...

Partitioning a disk in Linux involves dividing a physical disk into logical segments (partitions) to organize data and allocate space for different purposes, such as installing operating systems, ...

After making changes to your disk partitions, you need to save and exit fdisk. Press the “w” key to write the changes to the disk and quit fdisk. Conclusion Managing disk partitions in Linux with ...

When setting up storage devices, understanding partitioning schemes is crucial. This document provides an overview of Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT), two common partitioning ...

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 ...

Recently I needed to solve the problem of an apparently 100%-full root partition on a server that I am responsible for monitoring. This was unexpected and sudden, as the partition's usage has been at ...