Please follow this, very nice explanation of boot process: http://technochords.com/linux-booting-process-6-steps/
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Solaris – SAN easy way
Hey Everyone, I know sometime it seems a bit difficult to assign LUN’s to Solaris, here are my goto Steps: 1: Verify HBA port info to ensure assignment is correct: # fcinfo hba-port -l 2: find LUN stmsboot –u 3: Format LUN ‘fdisk’ and ‘label’ 4: Put the device names (ending with s2) into /etc/lvm/md.tab… Continue reading Solaris – SAN easy way
Increasing File System in Solaris 10
To increase a File system size, you basically need to follow 4 steps 1: Find which meta belongs to Mount 2: Add Slice to Meta: metattach d51 /dev/dsk/c11t60060160F87019005E06236CFC36E111d0s0 3: Make sure meta is showing new slice metastat d51 4: Grow File System growfs -M /u01 /dev/md/rdsk/d51 Easy …
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Solaris Root mirroring Easy way
Hey Everyone, Something from my old notes: Root mirroring in Solaris: Root Mirroring Root disk – c5t500000E010F08540d0 Mirror disk – c5t500000E010EFE890d0 Transfer the partition table prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t500000E010F08540d0s2 | fmthard -s – /dev/rdsk/c5t500000E010EFE890d0s2 Creation of meta databases metadb -c 2 -a -f /dev/dsk/c5t500000E010F08540d0s7 /dev/dsk/c5t500000E010EFE890d0s7 Initialising the meta devices metainit -f d10 1 1 c5t500000E010F08540d0s0 metainit d20… Continue reading Solaris Root mirroring Easy way
Windows vs Linux – RAM Comparison
Hey Everyone, I know i am a Nix fanboy, but I have been managing a team which works 60+% on Wintel and I found how RAM hungry Windows is for real. So back in days I use to have ubuntu Laptop with 2 GB RAM, and our VPN use to work only on windows. So… Continue reading Windows vs Linux – RAM Comparison