A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

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 ...

Ghosting a backup just now, I notice that the partition that is my C: drive is identifed as Type 7. Parenthetically as NTFS. <BR><BR>Could I have a thumbnail sketch of Type 7, please, or of types in ...

This excerpt from Chapter 5 of File System Forensic Analysis is posted with permission from Addison-Wesley Professional. The last chapter provided an overview of volume analysis and why it’s important ...

I'm about to experiment with reiserfs partitions for a Linux 2.4.9 system. I intend to start with my firewall box and want as little down-time as possible so, I've been going through the steps I will ...

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 ...