So I have found that it is rather easy to add entries into /etc/fstab while maintaining relatively legible scripts and making the changes with minimal user interaction… METHOD ONE This option is the simplest, we simply echo the line into the file as we want it to appear, then based…
LVM: Using 2TB Volumes for Volume Groups
Occasionally you will have the need to use physical volumes which exceed the limits of the standard DOS partitioning scheme. When you run into this a quick fdisk -l will reveal that you will need a new way to partition your disks. Fdisk will produce output similar to this… Use…
Solaris 11: DNS Client Configuration Using Svccfg
In Solaris 11, alot of configurations are being moved from configuration files into the Service Management Framework. Here we will discuss this change around the DNS client. View Existing DNS Client Configuration Update Existing DNS Client Configuration Here we will update our name servers. In this case we are replacing…
Solaris 11: Change Hostname Using Svccfg
When Solaris 11 was released more configurations were moved into the service management framework, and moved out of configuration files, one of these changes was the hostname/nodename. View Hostname in SMF This will read back the configuration out of the SMF. Change Hostname in SMF We have two separate settings,…
Solaris Virtualization: Using Zones
Solaris has the ability to do two types of Virtualization, if you are using SPARC hardware you can use Logical Domains, which has been re-branded as Oracle VM for SPARC. Or regardless of your architecture you can use Solaris Zones, which is really much more like Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, and Linux…