1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi How do I check how many disks do I have in Solaris & HP-UX? Also what does this mean c9t1d5 in /dev/dsk what is c, t, d etc cheers (8 Replies)

2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hello I've been working on AIX 5.3 ML3 on IBM pSeries520. That server has 6 HDD drives in 3 volume groups (1+mirror in each group). I must check which phisical disk is which disk in the system. For ex. I want to know that disk in 4th slot in the machine is marked as hdisk5 on AIX. Does anybody... (2 Replies)

3. Solaris

I was just curious if anyone has a good tutorial or some info about how I can create and add an array of disks to solaris 8 (11 Replies)

4. Linux

Hi everyone, I hope this question goes here. Anyways, I have a unique situation where my friend's comp has Fedora installed and wants to add Win XP as a dual boot without formatting the drive. Is it possible to create a partition on the current hard drive and then install win xp? I couldn't find... (4 Replies)

5. Solaris

whats the command to find name of all disks. Is it iostat -En ? (1 Reply)

6. Solaris

I would like to know if I can move the disks from a V240 chassis into a V440 chassis to use the increased resources (CPU & Memory) to boost performance. I know you can move disks between V210/240 chassis's, but I'm not sure if this would work between 240s & 440s. Any help would be much appreciated. (4 Replies)

7. Red Hat

I will shortly be adding a fedora flavor to my devel box. I currently have XP (installed first on an ssd), ubuntu 10.04 (installed second on the first partition of a platter drive), and I want to add either Cent or SL on the second partition of the platter drive. I will probably also want to... (0 Replies)

8. Solaris

Hello Folks, I´m a New Unix admin (by forceps) and I got a warning from one server saying: Solaris Volume Manager: hostnamehere: metacheck: Report: Mon May 14 18:45:00 BRT 2012 -------------------------------------------------------------- metacheck: metadb problem, for more detail run: ... (2 Replies)

9. Solaris

Hi, I got a (used) server to install Solaris 11 and wipe out every information on existing disks. There are 6 disks of 300GB and two disks of 146GB. I am not able to figure out, how to find out RAID (if there is any) and break it. Can anybody help me with that ? Below is configuration. I have... (18 Replies)