We have already discussed extending a filesystem in AIX under JFS as well as the basic of softpartion where we could also extend its filesystem size. This time we have a task which is under Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). We need to extend a partition that is being managed by VxVM.

Even though cron is our usual lifesaver for redundant tasks on a Unix or Linux Systems, there are times that we really forget the syntax that is needed for our cronjobs. Here is a simple yet effective headers that we could place on top of the crontab as comments:

The battle of the smartphones for the consumer’s money is very high. Each company will always bet for their latest and greatest products to make us buy. But when it comes to users, it is so funny how they see each other when it comes to using such smartphone or should I say superphones. It looks like this image tells it all (and which side are you???):

There are times that we need to do maintenance on a system and we need to connect to its hardware or system controller. With HP boxes they are called HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO).

Just wandering around the web and saw this image and really made my day. Being an Android user and previous iOS user – I can tell the difference. Not that I would like to compare both OS, but I just want to share this image.

We have already discussed on how to add an EMC storage to a Solaris box. Now we have a dead path on our system where the storage team has decommisioned. Here are the steps to follow on how to remove these dead paths from our system.

An application user asks to kill all the processes under their application account. When you checked on the box itself you saw a lot of processes and killing them one by one would take forever.

Well I guess that this blog needs a proper Hello World!

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