Linux LVM: Reduce Filesystem and Logical Volume
March 14, 2012 – 5:07 pm | No Comment

The following example shows how to reduce the size of a filesystem mounted on an LVM logical volume. The instructions below are only for non-root filesystems. No reboot is required, but the filesystem will need to be unmounted. So, if there are any user applications using this filesystem, they will need to be stopped and the users will need to log out.

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Basic Network Configuration Under Solaris
November 26, 2005 – 1:27 pm | No Comment
Basic Network Configuration Under Solaris

The following document provides a general overview of the network configuration process for Solaris. For a detailed review of Solaris network configuration please see Chapter 4 of the O’Reilly Solaris 8 Administration Guide by Paul …

FTP script with nested function
November 20, 2005 – 2:14 am | No Comment
FTP script with nested function

An example of an FTP script with Korn shell.
For “$CONFTMP” input file of format: hostname username password

?View Code BASHcat "$CONFTMP" | fgrep -v "#" | while read LINE
do
FTPHOST=$(echo "$LINE" | awk ‘{print $1}’)
FTPUSER=$(echo "$LINE" | …

Using FTP with pipes
November 19, 2005 – 10:37 pm | No Comment
Using FTP with pipes

Pipe in Unix is a method of passing information from one command to another. The pipe take the output of the first command and sends it as input for the second command. The a second …