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Growing a UFS filesystem on Solaris

Did you know that it is also possible without a volume manager? You just have to know some special arguments to the mkfs command.

Deleting invalid entries in NBU job monitor

Because the bpjobd.act.db file contains active and queued jobs, deleting it will only remove the unwanted job, since no other jobs were running.

Deleting NetWorker base enablers

Until recently deleting a NetWorker base enabler was possible but it was neither user-friendly nor easy. Here I share a fully supported option.

Solaris UFS file system overview

UFS is the primary file system for the Solaris OS. UFS is extremely mature, very stable, and for most applications, is the file system of choice.

Solaris Fault Management Architecture

Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) introduces a new software architecture and methodology for fault management across Sun's product line.

Solaris FireEngine Project

The Solaris FireEngine project is a high performance networking framework based on an IP classifier and vertical perimeters.

Managing Computers Remotely with the MMC

Managing a remote system using the Computer Management console, you must launch the console with an account that has administrative credentials.

The Microsoft Management Console

The primary administrative tools in Windows Server 2003 are MMC consoles with col­ lections of snap-ins suited to a specific purpose.