Stumbled upon your site, as I have run out of /tmp for a Solaris Studio install.

You guide looks like it would help, but I cannot get past

fdisk -W ptbl.tmp && vi ptbl.tmp

fdisk says I am not using the parameters correctly.

(Just to add, I am using VMWare Workstation 7, with Oracle Solaris 10)

Regards,

Terry

Some other things that might actually be fun (for the right kind of person – warning many/most of these could potentially destroy your computer, so get 2 or 3 or 6 – you can often get them cheap/free if you hang out w/ some repair ppl. I have a friend who gets dozens of free laptops/year because the repair cost for replacing the HD is more than they’re worth – but worth doing if you can replace it yourself):

– (difficulty 5/10) crack a locked game. Don’t download a crack, get a disassembler and get to work. This is generally easier for old dos games, and as a bonus you can usually get them really cheap to play with. Setup an emulator in linux, and you have _all_ the control. Practical? perhaps not, but you start learning about the insides of computers.

– (difficulty 1-10/10) Volunteer for a local school or charity org to help rebuild/restore computers for kids/disadvantaged.

– (difficulty 3-10/10) Build yourself a firewall (see av’s old/cheap pc idea above). Now hack your way through it (used to be we’d do that to — other peoples firewalls.. you’re more likely to go to jail now than then though so no longer recommended). Fix whatever you were able to hack through, repeat. Get some friends together and build a LAN and play “capture the flag” (I hack your computer, you hack mine) – best done locally and if possible disconnected from the internet (see legal issues above). This is actually more fun if you intentionally open up some exploits and see how many the other ppl can find.

– (difficulty 6/10) write a web server (hey you’ve already installed like 15 different ones and have benchmarked them all already right? so the obvious next task is… )

– (difficulty 3-8/10) setup a database (better try at least three, how will you know which ones you don’t like if you don’t try them), build a db to record your book/record/board game/whatever collection.. think about the schema, redo 5 times.

– (difficulty 4/10) see how many OS’s you can install on one computer simultaneously (at least 10 should be no problem – shoot for variety).

– (difficulty 7/9) Write a filesystem. You can “cheat” and use fuse, maybe something that translates files from FLAC to MP3 on the fly would be convenient..

– (difficulty 4-5/10) fork bomb your computer, figure out how to set limits to stop that (or vice versa, figure out how to allow it if your computer is installed safe by default as many are now). Find other ways to allow/dissallow users (not root) from crashing the system and how to stop them (quotas, ulimit, etc…).

Take what you read and try to reproduce either the problem or the solution (or both!)
Expand on what you find, take it a step farther.

Actually, another great thing just came to mind: browse configuration files and settings for you system. Wonder about what each option does and how changing it would change your system. Stay curious!