Maintenance of the storage system is a daily job for system administrators. Linux provides users with a wealth of storage capabilities, and powerful built-in maintenance tools. However, these tools ...

Linux Mint just announced the beta release for LMDE 7, codenamed "Gigi." The beta release is available now, and you can ...

Oracle released version 10.2.0.1 of the database (10g release 2) Oracle released version 2.0 of the ASM kernel driver and libraries Oracle released version 2.0 of the Oracle Cluster File System As you ...

All Linux sysadmin books tell about the awesomeness of LVM. But is actually anyone using it? On a desktop it adds needless complexity - you only need boot, (efi), swap, root and perhaps home. You ...

For this issue we cover the Linux.Ars visit to the OhioLinux fest, LVM snapshotting with XFS for hot backups, Tomboy, and more. On October 2nd, Jorge Castro and I found ourselves on our way to the ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...