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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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NFS-mount “Permission denied” error

February 16, 2006 – 11:27 am
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NFS is a relatively uncomplicated functionality of any Unix system. However, from time to time you are bound to run in the “permission denied” error while trying to NFS-mount a filesystem. Everything seems to be …

Moving filesystems with ufsdump

November 19, 2005 – 11:22 pm
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to move /opt on new partition (disk or file system)
1) from system prompt: format –> partition –> label
2) newfs -v /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 (target location)
3) mkdir /new_dir
4) mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 /new_dir
5) cd /new_dir
6) ufsdump 0f – /opt | …

Healthy tips

November 19, 2005 – 10:33 pm
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Here’s an example of creating and mount a CS ISO image under Solaris.