The dump device on my system was set to /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7. I have done a savecore -Lv on the system which worked fine. I'm wondering have I overwritten the rootdisk here by mistake? The system is still up but will need to be rebooted due to an error on it. Will it come back up?
If not is there anyway to save it? It's encapsulated using VVM 5.0. Details below. Thanks.
Hi, My account is : abcd
I belong to a group: pqrs
Some thing straneg happened yesterday.
My .cshrc and .login got overwritten into pqrs's .cshrc and .login
I obviously did not explicitly overwrite pqrs's .cshrc.
Are there any reasons how this could have happened indirectly due to... (5 Replies)
Hello,
One of my frend had a problem.
He had Windows XP installed on his system. Then he installed Red Hat Linux 8.0 in one of the partitions. After some time his XP got corrupt and then he reinstalled Windows XP. This over wrote the Grub loader entry, and due to this the grub loader is not... (2 Replies)
We have a problem where we delete a user and their associated UID gets dumped back in the UID pool. The if we immediately create a another (new) user, AIX reuses the last UID, the one that was just released. This is causing a problem when reports are being generated because the new users name is... (2 Replies)
Due to my own stupidity I managed to overwrite my /dev/root device using dd (don't ask).
Current state is
- Have current backup created using cpio (command used was 'find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -ocB > $TAPE')
- Once I realised what was happening powered off the server but this was too... (2 Replies)
The following files were wiped out - new empty files were left in their place.
/etc/inittab, /etc/inetd.conf, and /etc/MANPATH
The system is running HP-UX 11i v3 - Mar08.
Anyone seen anything like this?
Any ideas on a way to figure this out if it happens again or a suggested way to... (9 Replies)
Hi, i have some problems with the following code:
char *tab_path;
char *sep=" \t\n";
char line;
char *p;
FILE * file;
int i = 0;
if(fgets(line,MAXLINE,file)!=NULL){
if((p=strtok(line,sep))!=NULL)tab_path=p;
while((p=strtok(NULL,sep))!=NULL){
i++;
... (4 Replies)
Hello All,
I am writing a bash script on Solaris O/S. I looping through an array. For each iteration, i connect to the datatabase and use select statement. Output of which is redirected to .CSV file. here is the code for it.
output="loop.csv"
elements=${#currency_pair}
... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
We are using Solaris 10 x86, and Veritas Storage Foundation Software version 6.0.1 and faced the following issues after mirroring and during boot from mirror.
1) VTOC has been changed after mirroring the rootdisk with this command - " /opt/VRTS/bin/vxrootmir <disk to be mirrored>".... (0 Replies)
Hi All,
I am new new to unix.com, I have a question related to shell scripting.
We have a Oracle database backup shell script, which can be used for taking full, incremental & archive log backup based on the parameters passed.
Within the script we export a variable as
export... (5 Replies)
I had generated a ssh2 key on my AIX box, to receive files from other AIX and Linux systems.
Key Name: id_ssh2_server.pub
However this ssh2 key (both public and private keys) has been overwritten, while I was generating another ssh2 key. Now the earlier configured target systems are not able... (3 Replies)
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prtvtoc
prtvtoc(1M) System Administration Commands prtvtoc(1M)NAME
prtvtoc - report information about a disk geometry and partitioning
SYNOPSIS
prtvtoc [-fhs] [-t vfstab] [-m mnttab] device
DESCRIPTION
The prtvtoc command allows the contents of the label to be viewed. The command can be used only by the super-user.
The device name can be the file name of a raw device in the form of /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s2 or can be the file name of a block device in the
form of /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f Report on the disk free space, including the starting block address of the free space, number of blocks, and unused parti-
tions.
-h Omit the headers from the normal output.
-m mnttab Use mnttab as the list of mounted filesystems, in place of /etc/mnttab.
-s Omit all headers but the column header from the normal output.
-t vfstab Use vfstab as the list of filesystem defaults, in place of /etc/vfstab.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Using the prtvtoc Command
The following example uses the prtvtoc command on a 424-megabyte hard disk:
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimension:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 80 sectors/track
* 9 tracks/cylinder
* 720 sectors/cylinder
* 2500 cylinders
* 1151 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
* * First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 0 76320 76319 /
1 3 01 76320 132480 208799
2 5 00 0 828720 828719
5 6 00 208800 131760 340559 /opt
6 4 00 340560 447120 787679 /usr
7 8 00 787680 41040 828719 /export/home
example#
The data in the Tag column above indicates the type of partition, as follows:
Name Number
UNASSIGNED 0x00
BOOT 0x01
ROOT 0x02
SWAP 0x03
USR 0x04
BACKUP 0x05
STAND 0x06
VAR 0x07
HOME 0x08
ALTSCTR 0x09
CACHE 0x0a
RESERVED 0x0b
The data in the Flags column above indicates how the partition is to be mounted, as follows:
Name Number
MOUNTABLE, READ AND WRITE 0x00
NOT MOUNTABLE 0x01
MOUNTABLE, READ ONLY 0x10
Example 2: Using the prtvtoc Command with the -f Option
The following example uses the prtvtoc command with the -f option on a 424-megabyte hard disk:
example# prtvtoc -f /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
FREE_START=0 FREE_SIZE=0 FREE_COUNT=0 FREE_PART=34
Example 3: Using the prtvtoc Command on a Disk Over One Terabyte
The following example uses uses the prtvtoc command on a disk over one terabyte:.
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 partition map
*
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 3187630080 sectors
* 3187630013 accessible sectors
*
* Flags:
* 1: unmountable
* 10: read-only
*
* First Sector Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector Count Sector Mount Directory
0 2 00 34 262144 262177
1 3 01 262178 262144 524321
6 4 00 524322 3187089340 3187613661
8 11 00 3187613662 16384 318763004
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO devinfo(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5)WARNINGS
The mount command does not check the "not mountable" bit.
SunOS 5.10 25 Jul 2002 prtvtoc(1M)