1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi gurus. I wonder if there is some command that will help me to determing the progress of cp. I'm copying huge amount of files, and through the ps x -uoracle see, that it goes 1771 pts/6 S+ 0:37 cp 1_2600_617913793.arc 37 minutes. Is there command, that helps determing on what... (0 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Maybe someone know how to create something like "*". If someone uses Gentoo he must see this while emerge utility preparing an update. I mean the symbol "/" spins. (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

hi all, in shell script (ksh), how do i write a progress bar ?? i have a script which searches files and while its searching i am currently printing out "." and if it finds what its searching for the script prints out the name of the file e.g .................. firstFile.txt... (2 Replies)

4. Solaris

I've looked a little but haven't found a solid answer, assuming there is one. What's better, hardware mirroring or ZFS mirroring? Common practice for us was to use the raid controllers on the Sun x86 servers. Now we've been using ZFS mirroring since U6. Any performance difference? Any other... (3 Replies)

5. Solaris

Hi , I am new to SVM .when i try to learn RAID 1 , first they are creating two RAID 0 strips through metainit d51 1 1 c0t0d0s2 metainit d52 1 1 c1t0d0s2 In the next step metainit d50 -m d51 d50: Mirror is setup next step is metaattach d50 d52 d50 : submirror d52 is... (7 Replies)

6. Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

Hi All I have a RAID 5 array consisting of 4 drives that had a partial drive failure in one of the drives. Rebooting shows the faulty drive as background rebuilding and mdadm /dev/ARRAYID shows three drives as in sync with the fourth drive as spare rebuilding. However the array won't come... (9 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hi folk, I have this hardware faunty message, but dont know which hardware is this ? can you guide me ? --------------- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------- TIME EVENT-ID MSG-ID SEVERITY ---------------... (9 Replies)

8. HP-UX

what is the difference between DRD and Root Mirror Disk using LVM mirror ? (3 Replies)

9. Solaris

Hi fellow members! I have a oracle solaris server with two internal disks, that acts as an authentication server only, and for now the server seems to be doing its job, but when typing metastat -c I get some notifications. I am not familiar with SVM, I wonder if someone can help me on this:... (3 Replies)