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, ...

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 ...

Most Linux tutorials focus on working with an existing Linux distribution with some name-brand recognition: Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, and so on. LFS assumes that the user doesn’t simply want to ...