Bah. Okay, well in toying around with a vga16 hack to grub, I somehow managed to overwrite my partition table on my libretto. Yippee. Well, I managed to repair most of the damage (and the entire ...

We list the best Linux repair and rescue distros, to make it simple and easy to fix your distro to remove errors and recover from crashes. As with most things Linux, there’s no shortage of tools and ...

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 ...

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. Today, you can ...