Wanna loose weight? Use these tried and test techniques. Since last few days I was writing some tips on reducing the excess weight. I hope you’ll find these useful…
Month: April 2009
Tips to fight stains- II
This section of the series will provide useful tips on how to fight stains on your upholstery , which includes curtains, bedsheets etc. , removing which is even tougher as the stains are stronger and you don’t have full access to them, rather you can only work on the surface, which leaves us with fewer options to remove them. Following tips will certainly prove useful in fighting these stains …
How To Recover A Superblock
If fsck or mount commands give errors then pretty good chances are there that the superblock is corrupt. The dd command comes to rescue. We know that the superblock resides in 31st block also. So, to recover that we use the following command: # dd count=1 bs=4k skip=31 seek=1 if=/dev/my_lv of=/dev/my_lv count: How many blocks…
File Systems In AIX-A Primer
Generally talking, the File Systems are collection of files, directories etc. within a single partition or Logical Volume in a Volume Group. Collecting files and directories from different Logical Volumes or Partitions does not qualify to be named as File System. Aix supports mainly three types of File Systems: JFS, NFS and CDRFS. All these are being discussed here in this article. For more information you can see the previous article: Aix Logical Volume Manager A Brief Introduction
What Does It Take To Be A Billionaire-Ask Forbes
Logical Volume In AIX A Primer
Users can not access directly, the disk space available on Physical Volumes with in Volume Group. In order to access the space available, the users and applications need to access File Systems which are created on Logical Volumes. Therefore to manage Physical Volume space you need to manage Logical Volumes. For more information you can see the previous article: Aix Logical Volume Manager A Brief Introduction….
Ways To Zip The Directory Structure of Unix
How To Split or Cut A File Vertically(Column wise)
In Unix environment it’s often required to print specific columns from a file. If the rows of file are having some proper delimiters then other Unix command like awk come into picture and quite handy. But if say you want to print out the 5th character and then 7th to 16th character, then other commands fail and in such situations the cut command comes to rescue. Here is short primer of cut command.
Making home safe for your child
While designing a house, we often ignore a very important issue, child safety. This issue is more serious when the child is small and doesn’t understand everything till now. They are playful and adventurous, and can cause harm to themselves while playing with different gadgets. So, it’s the parents’ duty to take this aspect seriously, and design the house accordingly. Here are some tips, which may help you in making your home safe for your kids…
Volume Group In AIX – A Primer
Volume Group is at the highest level in LVM hierarchy. Hard disks are used as Physical Volumes in LVM. Then Physical partitions are mapped to Logical Partitions. Logical Partitions are combined to Logical Volumes. These Logical Volumes comprise the Volume Group. For more information you can see the previous article: Aix Logical Volume Manager A Brief Introduction..