Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

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The main thing I am unsure about is the RAID1 thing. Is this a good idea? How do I set it up? I imagine it won't be quite as easy as telling him to use some space on sda to mirror the stuff that ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

I would like to move from extX partitions to something modern like LVM, btrfs or ZFS. Server uses GNU/Linux, but I see that ZFS is popular right now. First of all, is it ok to use LVM with ZFS? I ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...