Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to, well, give your computer more disk space. Ok, the concept is pretty logical but the process to make it work needs ...

There are many ways to evaluate disk space usage on Linux, and this post examines a number of commands that allow you to view used and available disk space. The df command stands for “disk free” and, ...

With recent advances in network bandwidth, resources and facilities are becoming centralized once again. The trend of departmental computers and services is fading as larger, more centralized services ...

One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what's the ...

Creating a disk image for a data center server doesn’t have to be challenging. Jack Wallen shows you how easily this can be done with the help of GNOME Disk. If you have Linux servers in your data ...

Most similar to top is iotop. This program shows you the total and current disk read and write numbers for the file system and also shows you who is eating up the most disk I/O. This screen looks busy ...