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Solaris Crash Dump Analysis (CDA)

Updated 18 Jan 2000 Read time 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) (2948 visits).

Whatever the cause, the crash dump itself provides invaluable information to a support engineer to aid in diagnosing the problem.

Updated 27 Jan 2000 Read time 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) (1547 visits).

A brief overview of the various backup and restore utilities available under the Solaris operating system.

Updated 2 Mar 2003 Read time 4 min(s) 32 sec(s) (2270 visits).

When you create a UFS file system, the disk slice is divided into cylinder groups.

Updated 29 Nov 1999 Read time 24 sec(s) (2930 visits).

savecore under solaris 2.6 fails with 2GB or larger swap partitions

Updated 10 Aug 2005 Read time 6 min(s) 11 sec(s) (2338 visits).

A link is a pointer to another file or directory. Links provide a mechanism for multiple file names to reference the same data on disk.

Updated 12 Nov 1999 Read time 1 min 30 sec(s) (2331 visits).

The file type can usually be identified by looking at the first character of the first column of information when using the ls command

Updated 12 Nov 1999 Read time 2 min(s) 13 sec(s) (3044 visits).

Quotas let system administrators control the size of UFS file systems by limiting the amount of disk space that individual users can acquire.

Updated 21 Nov 1999 Read time 4 min(s) 43 sec(s) (3213 visits).

Backups and Restores of Solaris UFS file systems, files and directories can be done using tar, cpio, ufsdump, ufsrestore and dd commands.

Updated 5 Apr 2012 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (492 visits).

How do we know how is a storage device mapped to local device? Simple checkout /etc/path_to_inst.

Updated 2 Sep 2002 Read time 2 min(s) 9 sec(s) (2465 visits).

A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.