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LDOM cheat sheet

Published 31 Dec 2012 Read time 3 min(s) 15 sec(s) (4178 visits).

This document is designed to be a a quick platform specific cheat sheet to help engineers run important LDOM task on Sun SPARC systems

Published 19 Nov 2012 Read time 32 sec(s) (2538 visits).

fixing a prtdiag hang under solaris

Published 15 Nov 2012 Read time 45 sec(s) (3150 visits).

This can occurs when Relabelling existing or new media via the command line or using the GUI where cartridge barcode differ to the internal label

Published 5 Nov 2012 Read time 37 sec(s) (2537 visits).

If you try to view LDOM configuration information as a non-root user under Solaris...

Published 25 Oct 2012 Read time 44 sec(s) (2836 visits).

fontconfig is used to manage all types of fonts including PostScript and TrueType fonts in the Solaris desktop environment.

Published 20 Oct 2012 Read time 3 min(s) 2 sec(s) (3286 visits).

RAID is a method of combining several hard drives into one unit. Offering fault tolerance and higher throughput levels than a group of drives.

Updated 16 Oct 2012 Read time 7 min(s) 14 sec(s) (2964 visits).

A simple table which provides a listing of where to locate the serial number on various Sun related products.

Updated 14 Jan 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) (1805 visits).

Renaming a SAM-QFS file system is a two-step process. Firstly edit the mcf file then run samfsck to update the superblock

Published 10 Oct 2012 Read time 4 min(s) 20 sec(s) (3155 visits).

This article provides simple instructions to create a Flash Archive image that can be loaded onto the target system to recover from a failed drive.

Published 9 Oct 2012 Read time 1 min 18 sec(s) (663 visits).

The samfsinfo command displays the file system structure for a specified file system