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Huge. I was amazed at the different commands for system administration. Commands to look at different aspects of the system used in Solaris just aren't there - the commands, not the ability to view the same type of info. Just different way of doing it. Stuff like prtdiag, prtvtoc, psrinfo, ... is just not there. This page may be helpful - unixguide.net

AIX has an unbelievable amount of lsxxx commands. I only worked with it for a short time so didn't gather a great deal of experience with it, but there is a great GUI interface for administration. Very different way of doing administration - smit was one of the tools - I'm not sure if that was the 'running man' one or not. (You click your options, hit run, and this 'running man' would run while waiting for the command to finish...very irratating. One good thing about it, it would show you the command line (if you so desire) of what you just ran.

HP-UX - use SAM for adding users, printers and such. Better than admintool (don't remember if it's a true GUI interface ).
You can probably search through this site for HP-UX for other commands (a good monitor tool is glance). HP-UX is different but not as much of a shock as AIX was.

The link I put in will show you how different each one is just for those commands/styles of doing things. Get a book on each or start looking at the different links to get more of an education. You'll be sweating it out the first few months, but you'll be better off in the long run. You never know when someone will need a person with all three and you'll be one up on the competition.

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fsadm(1M)																 fsadm(1M)

NAME

       fsadm - a file system administration command

SYNOPSIS

       FStype] specific_options] special

DESCRIPTION

       The  command  is designed to perform selected administration tasks on file systems. These tasks may differ between file system types.  spe-
       cial is a device file containing an unmounted file system. However, if the file system is of the type that provides  online  administration
       capabilities the special could be a directory.  directory must be the root of a mounted file system.

       Only a superuser can invoke

   Options
       Specify the file system type on which to operate (see
		      fstyp(1M)  and  fs_wrapper(5)).  If this option is not included on the command line, then the file system type is determined
		      from the file by matching each special with an entry in that file.  If there is no entry in then the  file  system  type	is
		      determined from the file

       Specify options specific to each file system type.
		      specific_options	is a list of comma separated suboptions and/or keyword/attribute pairs intended for a specific FStype-spe-
		      cific module of the command.  See the file system specific manual entries for a description  of  the  specific_options  sup-
		      ported, if any.

       Echo the completed command line,
		      but  perform  no other action.  The command line is generated by incorporating the user-specified options and other informa-
		      tion derived from This option allows the user to verify the command line.

EXAMPLES

       Convert an file system from a file system to a file system:

       Display relevant file system statistics:

FILES

       Static information about the systems

SEE ALSO

       fsadm_hfs(1M), fsadm_vxfs(1M), fsck(1M), fstab(4), fs_wrapper(5).

																	 fsadm(1M)