You will be able to identify any new disks in place. The mount terminology comes from the days of large (in size, not necessarily space!) disks and tapes which were literally mounted and unmounted ...

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, ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

Hey!<BR><BR>I have an external USB hard drive. I formatted the first partition ntfs and it mounts fine. I then took the unallocated space and added an extended partition with ext3 formatting. When I ...