Category Archives: AIX

LVM

LVM :- Logical Volume Manager and it’s a disk Management for Linux/UNIX Systems.

how to Compare between 2 files

how to comapre between 2 files to list the differences between them ??? there is a greate 2 commands which you can use them. first command is diff FILE1 FILE2 and this command just display the difference between the 2 … Continue reading

How to sync users and password between hosts on hacmp

AIX has a wonderful method to synchronize the users and their passwords or any files you need to sync them between HACMP Nodes. there is a command call “rdist”, this command used to transfer files between hosts and make them … Continue reading

uncompress files using jar command

you can uncompressed zipping files using java, specially “jar” command:   to do that , try the following :   /usr/java6/bin/jar -xvf /tmp/test.zip

run levels description

The Following points shows the meaning of each run level : on LINUX-UBUTNU/DEBIAN: 0 – halt 1 – single user 2 – multiuser (default) 3 – same as 2 4 – same as 2 5 – same as 2 6 … Continue reading

how to know current run level

run the following command to know your current run level: # who -r run-level 2 2013-12-20 00:39

how to log ftp commands

if you need to see FTP users log, and what they do on your system, just do the following commands ( this article doesn’t useful for past commands, it will be useful to get commands in the future after you … Continue reading

how to know the Major Number for Specific Volume Group

to list the Major number for Specific Volume Group, use the following Command : “lvgenmajor VOLUME_GROUP_NAME” for example : # lvgenmajor rootvg 10 and the following link show how to display the available Major Numbers:

how to list file system inside specific volume group

You can use command ‘lsvgfs’ to list all file systems inside specific volume group like the following example: # lsvgfs rootvg / /usr /var /tmp /home /opt /admin /var/adm/ras/livedump /oracle_osb /u01/app/oracle /u02/oradata /iso_image /TestFs