File systems and UUIDs have a special relationship on Linux systems. What are these very long identifiers and how can you view the connections between them and disk partitions? The /etc/fstab file is ...

/dev/disk/by-uuid/cf7c3afd-aaf9-44ee-8905-b5d15e7c0e79 /boot xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/dm-uuid-LVM ...

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, ...

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 ...