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Increasing partition space/capacity by creating links

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A simple approach to tackle the problem of growing need of partition is to use the links to share which has excess space. It happens many times in IT environment that the disk which is having the running application runs out of space. But at the same time we have many partitions whose space is [...]

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Solaris : How to check whether running system is 32 bit kernel or 64 bit kernel?

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The command used for this purpose is “isainfo” which is then used in different combinations to get the system information. For all valid option use “# man isainfo”.
# isainfo -kv
the above command will show you the number of kernel bits. You can also use “-v” option with combination of “-k or -b”. Below [...]

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Changing timezone in Solaris 10

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Changing timezone is different on x86 machines and on Solaris servers. I have listed the steps for both platforms below.
Solution for Solaris 10 x86:
As changing TimeZone on Solaris machine requires reboot, so plan a downtime and then plan the change activity. If one is changing only time, then one can use date command with required [...]

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Unix : Device Information commands in Solaris 10

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prtconf : This command is used to display configuration information, inclusding the total amount of memory and deviced configured on system as per system’s hierarchy. This also verifies whether any device has been seen/recognised by system or not.
Note : The output of prtconf command can vary depending on the version of the host system’s PROM.

sysdef [...]

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