I have a pen drive1 with UFS file system and it has 43G used. It has a hell lot of soft links to other files which are located in a second pen drive2. We partitioned the file system on sun sparc machine, such that / has around 150G space.Now when we are copying the files from pen drive 1 to / on the sun machine, the space on the machine has already increased to 69G without full copy. What could be the reason. I am using df -h to check the space. Are soft links using space?? if so , so much??
There is some confusion here. When you give the copy command a source name that is a symbolic link - the "big" file - the one the link refers to gets copied.
Code:
cp linkname newname
Does not create a second link, it goes to the source instead and copies that. So you get lots of data.
Why else would a command like vi linkname allow you to actually change a file? Links are not like some kinds of filesystem objects example: snapshots that simply contain delta data.
Short answer : use the ln command to "copy" a link.
Also note that symlinks never tell you that the original files does not exist - until you try to stat or open that file. You can symlink across filesystems, but it is fraught with problems if you are not careful. Your USB symlink copy could rapidly become pointless.
I want to run solaris10 with my pxelinux server
i put on pxelinux.cfg/default this
LABEL solaris 10
kernel mboot.c32
append -solaris solaris/boot/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -v -m verbose install dhcp nowin nfs://192.168.0.2/jumpstart/config.tar -B install_media=192.168.0.2:/solaris... (0 Replies)
Hi
I want to create softlinks, my source files and folders are placed in one server(hostname: info-1) and i want to access those files from different host(hostname :info-2).
file and folder names in info-1 host.
file1
folder1
Thanks,
Mallik. (1 Reply)
How do i make a hardlink readable,writable, and executable by me?
I am kinda hoping for a command i can use
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Hi All
How can we verify if any of the parameters we have change in Solaris10 after reboot. Like is there any command? Please advice
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hi to all,
I am newuser can anyone tell me from where i get the sun solaris 10 dumps.
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Hi all,
I wrote a small shell (bash) script and it was executing well. I'm getting problem when I use this in crontab. My script is:
#!/usr/bin/bash
mkdir `date '+%m-%d-%y'`
cd `date '+%m-%d-%y'`
cvs co -r br_name module
cd dir1/dir2/dir3
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sorry,my english is poor.
who can install win2003 and solaris10 in one pc ?
my win2000server in hda1
so
frist install win2003 in hda5
second install solaris10 in hda2
but after install over,the win2003 can't logon in. alway let me press<ctrl>+<alt>+<del>.
why? (1 Reply)
