Monthly Archives: June 2013

How to set the PVID of a disk to a specific value

Posted on June 30, 2013 by UNIX Admin

The following series of commands demonstrates how to set the PVID of an AIX disk to a specific value like “0123456789abcdef”: Note:  Setting PVID like this should be avoided normally. It may cause unwanted consequences in your environment.

superblock is invalid : -5

Posted on June 26, 2013 by UNIX Admin

You may face the following error on many Operation System not only on AIX : superblock is invalid : -5 this error means that you apply function of File system type on another type, in another meaning,

IBM ReadBook Archive Site

Posted on June 20, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Hello Everyone!!   There are many of people don’t know the archive link for IBM RedBook, you can access it for the following link:   IBM RedBook

Server refused to allocate pty

Posted on June 18, 2013 by UNIX Admin

sometimes if you have many users logging on your system, you may see the following errors : login as: admin admin@10.10.11.10’s password: Server refused to allocate pty stty: tcgetattr: A specified file does not support the ioctl system call.

how to take remote backup without tap unit

Posted on June 6, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Remote Backup on AIX System Dears, I found a way to take remotely backup from AIX System from Server that doesn’t have TAP UNIT. Suppose that the server that we want to take backup from it is ServerA, and the … Continue reading →