TuxTraining

In this tutorial we look at ZFS filesystem management, including creating new filesystems, destroying them and adjusting their properties.

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ZFS is an open source filesystem used in Solaris 10, with growing support from other operating systems. This series of tutorials shows you how to use ZFS with simple hands-on examples that require a minimum of resources.

In this tutorial I hope to give you a brief overview of ZFS and show you how to manage ZFS pools, the foundation of ZFS. In subsequent parts will we look at ZFS filesystems in more depth.

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Opensolaris 2008.05 ships with the IPS Image Packaging System, which, even if it’s got very few packages, has both command line and gui tools.  The following tutorial goes over how to search for an installed package, check for updates for a package, search for and install new packages, add repositories, and how to update the entire system.  Enjoy.

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