If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with Ubuntu ...

So, now it looks like I will have to reinstall my desktop soon. Right now, my Ubuntu desktop works and doesn't have problems, but it's a dual-boot Windows (for my iPhone and games)/Ubuntu (for ...

When it comes time to replace your computer's hard drive, the prospect of reinstalling all your operating system and programs is exhausting. However, by copying your Ubuntu partition over to your new ...

Maybe you want to give Linux a try on your netbook with Ubuntu's Netbook Remix, but don't want to have to wipe your system to do so. Luckily, you can install and remove Ubuntu from Windows, just like ...

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 ...

I just finished installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on my laptop. While the process went without a hitch (image gallery of the install with instructions and potential stumbling blocks to follow later today) and ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Canonical replaced the old data collection tool Ubuntu Report with a modern telemetry system called Ubuntu Insights starting ...