I'll be installing Linux soon on my W2k box (I'll be dual booting) and I'll need to access a data partition from both OSes.<P>What's the best file system for that partition?<P>FWIW, I'll be reading ...

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 provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...

System administration is a vital necessity of any computer system. However, most universities don't teach system administration. So where do people learn how to become system administrators? Basically ...

I am a complete idiot and I did this on my wife's computer. I had XP and Ubuntu on this system on different partitions. I went into right click my computer manage and click on disk management and I ...