Storage-management software developer Acronis has announced release of its True Image Server for Linux 8.0, the industry's first native Linux disk imaging, backup and bare-metal restore application, ...

1. 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.

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox.

As a storage manager, YaST partitioner can also perform partition management operations, this function requires the user to select the disk to be operated on. And in the YaST partitioner, a VG has ...

This means, let’s say, you’re logged into your Windows system, and you need a file that’s on the Linux partition. Well, you can’t open the file manager and grab it.

Linux reserves dedicated swap space, which can be either: A swap partition (separate disk partition designated for swapping). A swap file (a file on the filesystem used as swap space). When a process ...

Most of the Linux disk/partition management programs are able to shrink an NTFS partition, but I am rather paranoid about this, so I prefer to use the Windows disk management utility.

There are several project management applications that work on Linux. In this article, we share the six best Linux project management software for 2024.

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...