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, ...

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 ...

When the company I work for, a civil engineering and surveying firm, decided to move all its AutoCad drawings onto a central fileserver, we were presented with a backup situation orders of magnitude ...

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've got a Lacie Big Disk extreme hooked up via FW400 to a Redhat 8 kernel in a cluster. I need more space and am planning to buy more of the disks, as they have worked great for what I need (I don't ...