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Sun Trunking switch interoperability matrix

9 Jun 2000 48 sec(s) 2221 visits.

The following tables list the switches that have been tested with Sun Trunking software.

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gunzip: File too large / gzip: Value too large for defined data type

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Solaris 8 uses a number of commands to manage software installed on the OS. This short cheat sheet provides the basic package management commands.

2 Jan 2003 3 min(s) 27 sec(s) 840 visits.

If a Solaris system crashes (panic) it is possible to write the entire contents of memory to disk for later analysis.

18 Jan 2000 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) 3254 visits.

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

27 Jan 2000 5 min(s) 10 sec(s) 1782 visits.

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

2 Mar 2003 4 min(s) 32 sec(s) 2567 visits.

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

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

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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.

12 Nov 1999 1 min 30 sec(s) 2609 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