Previously I posted how to add a hard drive and create a new volume in LVM. This time we’ll add a new hard drive and then increase or extend the size of an existing volume or partition. This is an example using an RHEL 5 derivative, OEL 5. The server is really [...]
Breaking with tradition and posting something about Windows again….
One thing that I have always hated about using a Windows PC is when I pull up a command prompt to telnet to a mail server or something to test. If you’ve ever tried this you know what I’m talking about – you can’t see what you [...]
I had a problem on a FTP server running Solaris 9 that had tons of old files and many of them had spaces in the names. How do you automate removing the old files (the real concern being the spaces in the filenames)? Most solutions recommend using -print0 in find or xargs -0, [...]
Last time I showed you how to add a new drive to make a new disk group. Well, what if you already have a disk group, with just one drive on it and you want to mirror that data across another drive? The process is easy and here’s how:
Let’s start off with a [...]
Earlier I posted about how to add a new LUN to a Solaris 9 server. Today I’ll go through the process of adding that disk (emcpower6) to a new disk group and making it usable with a file system. This server has EMC Powerpath installed as well as the Veritas Storage Foundation running [...]