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.

We are now going to discuss extending a filesystem under JFS on AIX machine. It is really pretty simple, actually in just 3 commands (including the checking) we could easily extend an AIX filesystem. But for the benifit of everybody, I would include extra checking and commands for us to fully appreciate this task.

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: