Awk & sed Snippets for SysAdmins

Moving filesystems with ufsdump

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 | …

Copying directories using tar and rsync

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Find largest files

How to find the largest files in the directory tree on Solaris.

Increase swap space

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To display file’s modification, last access, etc

Display a file’s modification, last access and other attributes on Solaris.

Using NetBackup to restore boot disk

enable “Rename hard links”
disable “Rename soft links”
if root of destination drive is mounted as /destination/ then select “Restore to alternate path: from / to /destination/ , Restore search path
This is the alternate path for everything: …

Create tarball

The Unix tar command creates an archive of files and directories while preserving directory structure, file permissions and ownership information. This command is ideally suited for creating backups of most types of data. Many open-source …

Unix Files Transferred To CD

In our example we were requested to archive a 741 mb directory to CD. The source data resided on a Unix data server.

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Here’s an example of how to mount a cdrom on Solaris from a remote ISO image via NFS.

Copy directory structure and files with cpio

A basic command to copy directory structure and contents using cpio.

Create TAR and pipe through gzip

A simple example of creating a gzip-compressed tar archive of the current directory.

Fsck operations

The following is a collection of examples using fsck command. It is important to unmount VXFS before running fsck on Veritas filesystem.

RSync remote copy

The following is an example of using rsync to perform a irectory copy between two hosts over the network.

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Here’s an example of creating and mount a CS ISO image under Solaris.