Coming over from the Tales of Bad Linux Admin thread where bombcar made mention of /dev/sda2 not being found on boot. To which chong seemed to think it odd that bombcar was not using the uuid of the ...

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

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 ...

With the launch of Windows 7 in the fall of 2009, adopters were treated to many useful new features. But for SSD users, there was one that mattered more than the others: TRIM support. Being a ...

I currently have five external drives attached to my System76 Thelio, each of which serves a different purpose. I have one to house virtual machines, another for music files, another for backups, one ...