Recently I had to copy around 13GB of data from one system over to another. However, after copying the files across and running a du on the file folder it was quite different in size. The target folder was showing as being over 16GB for the same data. Delving further into the file structure coupled … Read more
Recently some disks had their PVIDs wiped accidentally. If you have the original PVIDs, they can be restored without too much trouble (and averting a restoration process). The steps for a VIOS/VIOC compared to an AIX system are similar. In the case of a VIOS, there are a couple more steps involved. To replace the … Read more
Noticed the other day that CPAN was out of date. When attempting to update it with: cpan install Bundle::CPAN it errors out with an “out of memory” message. This is typically caused on AIX because of hitting a ulimit. If you run ulimit -a it should show you the current settings. Try setting the memory … Read more