Short tutorial on how to connect, format, mount, detach and reconnect external USB disks.

The used disk is WD20EARS connected to a USB port via Sharkoon Quickport Pro cradle.

Basically, you need only two commands:

• rmformat – to determine the device name/path
• zpool – to do the rest (create ZFS, mount, attach and detach)

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The bottom line – Sweex PU202 (eSATA PCI express card) based on Sil3515 chipset is not supported by nv_125.

Both cfgadm and prtdiag see that there is something in the slot:

"format -e" does not see the disk connected to that card.

Given:

• QNAP TS-439 Pro NAS with 4 x WD20EADS in RAID-5
• eSATA/USB Sharkoon QuickPort Pro SATA cradle
• WD20EARS
• 1.7TB data on RAID-5

Guess, how long will it take to back up 1.7TB of mostly big files to a directly connected eSATA disk using standard GUI commands?
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I thought that nothing could be easier on Solaris than to mount a directory from a QNAP NAS (running Linux). Ha! Nope… Here's some gotchas.

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To enable verbose poweroff messages  add the following to /etc/system:

Where "7" is the verbosity level.

"Old" Solaris approach: a zone with exclusive IP-stack requires a separate physical network interface.

"New" Solaris 11 (project Crossbow, beginning b105) approach: you have one physical interface and you do with it whatever you want. You can create a whole network within your single box and a single network card.

Here's an example on how to migrate your existing zones with shared stack to "independent" zones.

Old configuration: one global zone (system name xeon), one non-global zone (dmz), one physical interface (e1000g0), two VLAN's (1 and 10):

"Defrouters" are defined in the global zone. So, if the global zone has a defaultrouter set to 10.0.1.1, you will have this route in zone "dmz". You can't get rid of it and force the traffic to 10.0.0.1. Instead you will have two default routes in both zones.

Now, let's have a look at the virtual interfaces (a part of the new concept).
Currently we do not have any:

Let's create two virtual interfaces, each of them will belong to a separate VLAN. You can choose a name for a virtual interface and call it whatever (almost ;-) ) you want:

Now we have two virtual interfaces:

• dmz1 – VLAN 1
• dmz0 – VLAN 10

with randomly assigned MAC addresses. You can assign an arbitrary MAC address to a virtual interface or use a factory one. (see man dladm).

Reconfigure the zone:

Now, (re)boot your zone and configure the network interfaces and default routes as if they were on a standalone system.

Nice! I love Solaris …

To speed things up Bluefish 1.3.3 has static inline functions. However, GCC thinks that the “inlineness” is defined twice:

This is an excerpt from the source:

to

Also see the previous post (http://www.alekz.net/archives/432) on Bluefish.

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pkgchk -n -a -P / 2>&1 | less
pkgchk -f -n -a -P /etc/opt

1. Get intltool package (for example, from blastwave)

   If you use the bundled intltool, you will get the following error:

   Undefined first referenced
   symbol in file
   libintl_bind_textdomain_codeset bluefish.o
   libintl_gettext bf_lib.o
   libintl_textdomain bluefish.o
   libintl_bindtextdomain bluefish.o
   libintl_ngettext file.o
   ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to bluefish-unstable
   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
   gmake[3]: *** [bluefish-unstable] Error 1
   gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
   gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
   gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/bluefish-unstable-1.3.2/src'
   gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
2. Set the LIBS variable:
   export LIBS="-lsocket -lnsl -L/usr/csw/lib -lintl"
3. Put /usr/gnu/bin directory in the first place in PATH. For example:
   export PATH=/usr/gnu/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/openwin/bin:
   /sbin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/csw/bin:/usr/local/bin

   The reason is two different xgettext programs. The configure script wants the GNU version:

   checking for xgettext… (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext
   checking for msgmerge… /usr/bin/msgmerge
   checking for msgfmt… (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
   /usr/bin/xgettext: illegal option — version
   Usage: xgettext [-a [-x exclude-file]] [-jns][-c comment-tag]
   [-d default-domain] [-m prefix] [-M suffix] [-p pathname] files …
   xgettext -h
   ERROR: Cannot open file –version.
   configure: error: GNU gettext tools not found; required for intltool