I've loaded sol 10, and I left 20 Gig of 70 free, I can't seem to find a straight forward proc. for loading the Linux RH. Does anyone have one, or can they point me to one ? (0 Replies)
I want to capture actual error message in case the commands I use in my shell script fails.
For eg:
ls -l abc.txt 2>>errorlog.txt
In this case I understand the error message is written to the errorlog.txt and I assume its bacause the return code from the command ls -l abc might return 2 if... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I currently have one BE and would like to create an ABE.
# lustatus
BE_name Complete Active ActiveOnReboot CopyStatus
------------------------------------------------------------------------
coolthreads yes yes yes - But... (3 Replies)
Need help with GCC package.
I did downloaded the same from sunfreeware.com for i86, however after doing the unzip I am unable to add the same with pkgadd as I am unable to get the sun standard format as SUNWgcc on my system.
Thanks (4 Replies)
Hi all-
I am trying to boot from a Solaris 10 DVD which I burned from the ISO I d/l from Sun(Oracle). I checked the byte counts of the image on Sun's website and my system and they are the same.
I and using cdrecord from Schilly and burning the DVD like so:
cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 -dao... (0 Replies)
Hello
Recently I found this (for me) really usefull tool kexec which can load a new Kernel while running one.
I tested it some times with the same kernel I was running, "rebooting" the system without powering it off at any time :D
But I need kexec basically just for live usbs. I want to start... (17 Replies)
Hello!
I have some X86 desktop computer with G45 embedded dual-head video.
Two monitors can be configured, but with "small" problem: the summ of dimensions in any direction (vert or horis) can't exceed 1680 pix- max sizeof virtual screen area.
Attempts to edit "videoram" parameter in xorg.conf... (0 Replies)
Hello. I'm going to make freebsd live usb based on FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso. The iso is 257 Megabytes, but after i copy its content to usb drive its volume increases to 971 Megabytes. I tried different methods of copying (tar,cp,cpio) but with the same result. Could anyone help? (0 Replies)
Hello,
I have a set-up in which I am executing a build from Jenkins on a Solaris 10 Server connecting via sshexec task in ANT.
On triggering the build, it is throwing below error:
com.jcraft.jsch.JSchException: Session.connect: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: DH key size... (2 Replies)
Unix Buddies
Burned download to DVD-R.
Booted it.
It dropped me at a command line.
Is it working properly?
Thanks! (7 Replies)
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blockdev
BLOCKDEV(8) System Manager's Manual BLOCKDEV(8)NAME
blockdev - call block device ioctls from the command line
SYNOPSIS
blockdev [-q] [-v] command [command...] device [device...]
blockdev --report [device...]
DESCRIPTION
The utility blockdev allows one to call block device ioctls from the command line.
OPTIONS -V Print version and exit.
-q Be quiet.
-v Be verbose.
--report
Print a report for the specified device. It is possible to give multiple devices. If none is given, all devices which appear in
/proc/partitions are shown. Note that the partition StartSec is in 512-byte sectors.
COMMANDS
It is possible to give multiple devices and multiple commands.
--flushbufs
Flush buffers.
--getalignoff
Get alignment offset.
--getbsz
Print blocksize in bytes.
--getdiscardzeroes
Get discard zeroes support status.
--getfra
Get filesystem readahead in 512-byte sectors.
--getiomin
Get minimum I/O size.
--getioopt
Get optimal I/O size.
--getmaxsect
Get max sectors per request
--getpbsz
Get physical block (sector) size.
--getra
Print readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
--getro
Get read-only. Print 1 if the device is read-only, 0 otherwise.
--getsize64
Print device size in bytes.
--getsize
Print device size (32-bit!) in sectors. Deprecated in favor of the --getsz option.
--getss
Print sectorsize in bytes - usually 512.
--getsz
Get size in 512-byte sectors.
--rereadpt
Reread partition table
--setbsz bytes
Set blocksize.
--setfra sectors
Set filesystem readahead (same like --setra on 2.6 kernels).
--setra sectors
Set readahead (in 512-byte sectors).
--setro
Set read-only.
--setrw
Set read-write.
AUTHOR
blockdev was written by Andries E. Brouwer and rewritten by Karel Zak.
AVAILABILITY
The blockdev command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
Aug 2010 BLOCKDEV(8)