These guides concern storage devices. They explain how to use hard disks, CD-ROMs, USB drives and such with Ubuntu.

Hard Drives

• Installing a new hard drive

• Testing Storage Media - How to test hard disks etc. for physical defects - methods similar to ScanDisk.

• Renaming Internal Partitions - How to change the display name (and mount point) of an internal hard drive.

• Renaming External Drives - How to change the label name (and mount point) of an external drive.

• Accessing files on your Windows drive - FAT and NTFS.

• Renaming Windows Partitions - Renaming FAT32 / NTFS / Ext2 / Ext3 Partition Labels .

• Partitioning - Partition your HD for other OS's and swap space.

• DiskSpace - How many partitions and which size for an Ubuntu installation.

• SwapFaq - Swap memory requirements.

• Encrypted Filesystems - Encrypting the entire hard disk during installation and on existing installs.

• Striped volumes - Set up a RAID0, or "striped" volume to boost hard drive performance

• clonezilla backup and restore drives or partitions

CD/DVD Drives

• Manage Disc Images - How to convert CloneCD to ISO and mount ISO files.

• Burning CDs and DVDs - How to burn CD-R and DVR/+-R/+-RW/DL.

• Eject CD - How to add a launcher on your panel to eject your cdrom.

Removable Storage

• USB drives - How to use a USB stick with Ubuntu.

• Encrypted Filesystems - Transparently encrypt removable storage devices (USB flash drives, portable hard drives, etc).

• TrueCrypt Hidden Volume (GUI) - How to create a hidden encrypted volume with TrueCrypt.

• Truecrypt hidden volume (command line) - How to create a hidden encrypted volume with Truecrypt.

• World-writable floppy drive - How to allow any user to write to and unmount any mounted floppy.

Security

• DrivesAndPartitionsSecurity - Security considerations when creating partitions and mounting volumes.

• Encrypted Filesystems - Securing storage at the filesystem level.

Data Recovery

• DataRecovery - Recover lost data from failed or formatted media.

External information on Drives and Partitions

• http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/disk-partitioning.html - Disk partitioning tips.

CategoryHardware