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 ...

Essential Linux troubleshooting commands every user should know.

Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents some of the more useful disk management command line tools found on just about every Linux distribution. Once you have even a basic ...

Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

You can use the following command line tools to retrieve the make and model of your hard drives without the need to open up your system. Note: You may need to install ...

Want to do a quick performance check on your Linux system? You might want to take a look at the dstat command. Linux provides a number of commands that provide information about disk and system ...

I currently have five external drives attached to my System76 Thelio, each of which serves a different purpose. I have one to house virtual machines, another for music files, another for backups, one ...

Once you have even a basic understanding of these commands, disk management in Linux will be considerably easier. Constantly Updated — The download contains the latest and most accurate details. Boost ...