Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) formerly called as Online DiskSuite and Solstice Disk Suite (SDS) is a volume manager that comes with the standard installation of Solaris 8, 9, and 10. But soft partition functionality was not included on the first release of SDS on Solaris 8, but it could be added with patch 108693-06 (latest). Upon introduction of Solaris 9, soft partition is included in SVM as one of it’s functionality.
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Generic NBU exclude_list
More often than not, we UNIX Administrators like our OS and data files have a good and trusted backup of all our files. But let us accept it there are really files or filesystems that really do not need to be backed up and they would just take up some space on our very expensive tapes (and of course backup time).
Kill All Processes by User in UNIX
An application user asks to kill all the processes under their application account. When you checked on the box itself you saw a lot of processes and killing them one by one would take forever.
Free up space hogged by application in UNIX
Hey, what do we have a here? The df command says that our filesystem is 100% but after thorough examination you see that the filesystem is almost empty. This is caused by applications (most of the times poorly coded) which are still hogging the space that was originally used by the deleted file.
Get Solaris System Information
You have a production Solaris box handed to you and wanted to check on basic system information. Surprise!!! Surprise!!! Here are some tips that hopefully could help UNIX Admins and alike to keep up into their sleeves.
Creating ISO image under Solaris
Sometimes you don’t want to load CDs or DVDs, and as HDD space becomes cheaper and cheaper, we want our CDs copied on our Hard Drive. Below is how to do it on a Solaris machine: