Veritas: Manually Un-mirror A Volume
Identify which plex you wish to remove using vxprint vxplex –o rm dis plex-name Original post blogged on b2evolution.
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Veritas: Upgrade A Disk Group
After a veritas volume manager upgrade you may need to upgrade the disk groups vxdg upgrade disk-group Original post blogged on b2evolution.
Veritas: Force Direct I/O
Add the following mount options to the filesystem mincache=direct Original post blogged on b2evolution.
Veritas: Commands To Defrag The File System
1. Some options worth noting a. –D : report on directory fragmentation b. –E : report on extent reorganization c. –d : defragment the directory structure d. –e : reorganize extent structure e. –s : report with a summary of work completed f. –v : report on reorganization activity 2. Example commands /usr/lib/fs/vxfs/fsadm –F vxfs …
Veritas: Volume Relayout
1. It is possible to relayout volumes/filesystems on the fly with veritas a.example: # vxassist –g disk-group-name relayout volume-name layout=layout-type ncol=number-of-columns alloc=”disks to use” stripeunit=stripe-width b. where alloc defines the disks to build the new layout on, ncol is the number columns to use, stripeunit is the size of the stripes (stripeunit is optional, default …
Windows: How to restore Active Desktop using registry key
Click on -> start -> run Type: regedit Then HKEY_Current_User Software Microsoft Internet Explorer Desktop Safe Mode Components DeskHTMLVersion (Decimal – 0) Original post blogged on b2evolution.
How to mount and unmount a drive in linux
How To Mount A Drive In Linux mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point eg. #mount /dev/sda2 /mnt The mounting point path must already be created with proper permissions. So a more likely flow of commands would be mkdir /some/mounting/point chmod 777 /some/mounting/point mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point How To Unmount A Drive In Linux umount /dev/partitionId eg. #umount /mnt This …