What's the safest way to disable the Linux swap-partition under Centos 4 (Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 clone)?<BR><BR>I know about the 'swapon' and 'swapoff' admin commands, and these work fine after I ...

Okay, here's the deal.<BR><BR>It's time to reformat, repartition, and reinstall both Windows and Linux on this computer, and I'd like to know if a swap partition for Windows (I have one for Linux) ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

Instead of relying on it to behave as my main OS, having Windows 11 in a virtual machine reframes it completely. Any specific ...

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, ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

I had a couple Zenoss VMware appliances that run Linux that needed to have more space allocated to them. I knew just adding another hard drive wouldn’t solve the issue so I set about finding the least ...