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I recently came across the need to mount a new file system to a Solaris 10 non-global zone without rebooting the actual zone. There are other ways to accomplish this same task but most of the solutions I’ve found required rebooting the non-global zone. Unfortunately, we could not take an outage by rebooting the non-global […]
At work, I have a Solaris SVM Disk Suite device which houses many end user files. Over the past year, this file system has grown by over 75%. Initially, I was growing the file system as it reached capacity but one thing I noticed over the years as a sysadmin is that users will always […]
Is it just me or do you hate it when you call the phone company, cable provider, or a big wig service shop and get a dumb computer answering the phone? With older systems, entering a simple “0” would of immediately transfered you to a human. Not so with most modern automated answering systems. Instead, […]
This post was sorta inspired from a couple recent questions I was asked by my good buddy Stevie-D. Well, I guess I should say the his questions made me get off my “fourth point of contact” and finally create the post that I have been meaning to do all along. A post about all the […]
Ever wanted to keep yourself organized but didn’t have the means to get yourself one of those fancy PDA’s or smartphones? Yeah, me either! If you are like me (broke) and carry several pieces of sticky notes around as reminders/todo lists, then you might be interested in the website called PocketMod (http://www.pocketmod.com/). This idea isn’t […]
Having to comment a block of code in a script and/or program can suck if you do it the wrong way. Yes, I am talking about the tedious: SHIFT+3 (gets you the “#” sign) Down Arrow Left Arrow Wash, Rinse and Repeat for as many lines that you wish to comment out. This can be […]