Recently I wrote a simple how-to for burning CDs in GNOME (Easy CD Burning in GNOME.) From that article a request came in to illustrate how to burn from the command line. This ability illustrates the flexibility of the Linux operating system. Not only can you burn CDs from an outstanding, and simple, GUI, you [...]
dd: the ultimate disk cloning tool
I recently had to clone a hard disk so I naturally turned to solutions such as Acronis True Image, but I discovered these did not work (the start-up disk claimed the clong was ‘complete’ when it blatantly wasn’t) and I also tried copying the partition using gParted in Ubuntu but this froze at about 3%, [...]
