Discover beginner-friendly Linux command-line tools that can boost your productivity, simplify tasks, and make your terminal ...

Monitor disk space in GNOME Shell with this extension. An alternative to the now-gone Other Locations panel in Nautilus, it ...

The du command allows you to see what directories are using your disk space. This makes it really easy to track down those directories that are eating up the largest portion of precious storage.

For most Linux servers, partitioning is done before the servers are deployed. On the other hand, you might add disks at some later time or hold back some significant amount of free disk space for ...

Linux divides its physical RAM (random access memory) into chucks of memory called pages. Swapping is the process whereby a page of memory is copied to the preconfigured space on the hard disk ...

Swap space might be configured as its own disk partition or be set up as a file. These days, most Linux installations create a partition during installation, and this is optimal.

The only thing you will have to watch out for, if you want to create a multi-boot system, is to reduce the partition sizes because most Linux installers will use all of the free disk space ...

Everything stays nice and snappy there under heavy disk I/O, even without preallocating disk space. Switching to i5/i7 isn't an option for this machine.