1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Currently I have a box that I am dual-booting Win98 & Linux on. I have an unformatted 3 gig slice that I would like to install Soloris 8 x86 on. Are there any issues I should be aware of? How close is the x86 install to the sparc install? The Linux partition will be going away but I need to reatain... (1 Reply)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I tried to build a 1.3 TB volume with disk suite, and recieved an error (don't remember the exact verbage, it was very late). It only built a 1 TB volume. newfs completed without error. I rebuilt the volume to be just under 1TB, and all was fine. Is there a limitation with disk suite, or ufs, that... (3 Replies)

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a disk formatted as follows. Part Flag Tag Cylinders Size =================================================== 0 wm root 0 - 38125 26.18 Gb 1 wu swap 38126 - 49776 8 Gb 2 wm backup 0 - 49779 34.18 Gb 3 wm unassigned 4 wm unassigned 5 wm unassigned 6 wm unassigned... (1 Reply)

4. AIX

Hi i have 2 know the full details of unix file systems. some one please help me (1 Reply)

5. Red Hat

Hi, I need to format a disk in Linux such that the disk works on DOS machine. Regards Rochit (2 Replies)

6. Solaris

Hello and Merry Christmas... Quick question after tireless search around the web. Description: I have a WD My book world edition II that met an untimely death. However the 2 SATA disks inside seem to be working just fine. Want to add either one of them to my Solaris Desktop. Since I... (5 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am a new Unix Sys Admin who is learning mostly from books with minimal classroom training (ie: no certificates, training is largely hands-on, conducted at work). I work with Solaris 8 through 10, and with some fairly outdated hardware. In my work restoring old workstations I have been instructed... (2 Replies)

8. Linux

Hi, I am a long time Windows user and recently try this Debian Wheezy OS. Burn Debian ISO in Windows environment and then select DVD ROM drive to boot first in BIOS. The first installation of Debian (GNOME) was with multi-boot option that allows booting from hard disk and DVD drive. I then... (4 Replies)

9. Solaris

Is there any way to translate a file name to the underlying file system's disk blocks/sectors/extents on UFS (Solaris OS on Sparc)? I found several ways to do it on linux file systems like ext2/3/4, using command like hdparm -- fibmap and filefrag. I also found one equivalent way to get that... (9 Replies)

10. Solaris

I need to increase the /var (UFS) filesystem and root disk under veritas control or root disk is encapsulated # df -k /var Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on /dev/vx/dsk/var 13241195 12475897 674524 96% /var # fstyp /dev/vx/dsk/var ufs # pkginfo... (1 Reply)