Comments on: Copy a Solaris Boot Drive to a New Disk

By: rob

rob — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:16:21 +0000

if you have nfs-shares remember to boot in single user mode, otherwise the procedure will fail

By: DaveK

DaveK — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:28:25 +0000

Thanks for this article, I’ve just used it to move to a bigger drive in my E4500.

By: How to copy a Solaris boot drive to a disk with a different partition layout | IDGLabs.COM - tips, tools and resource

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:14:07 +0000

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By: Prasen

Prasen — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:51:08 +0000

Good document.

With this document I did on SUNfire 440 with Solaris 10. But problem is that its took long time to take backup & restore with 3 GB data using #ufsdump 0f – /usr | ( cd /mnt ;ufsrestore xvf – )

Near about 3 hours it tooks take backup & restore with 3 gb data.

Is there any solution to minimise the time.

One more thing I am not able to rebuild /etc/path_to_inst file with following command in Solaris 10 release 10/6

# devfsadm -r /mnt -p /mnt/etc/path_to_inst

Thanks …
Prasen

By: spiralbound.net » Moving Large Directories on Solaris

spiralbound.net » Moving Large Directories on Solaris — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:37:04 +0000

[...] some of the files in those directories are larger than 8 Gigabytes. One solution is to use a “ufsdump pipe to ufsrestore” command, but I have even had problems with this from time to time. My perfered method these [...]

By: BaffyOfDaffy

BaffyOfDaffy — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:01:50 +0000

You may also want to boot to an alternative source (cd/dvd/net) in order to ensure that you are not trying to deal with changing content

By: cliff

cliff — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:40:04 +0000

Hey JS,

I’m glad the article was helpful to you

By: kjs

kjs — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:46:21 +0000

I have used the above procedure to copy the contents of an entire disk over to a different disk. It worked very nicely, and now I have a system with a mirrored disk set (using DiskSuite).
Thanks, great article
js

By: Maelstrom

Maelstrom — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:28:36 +0000

Should these be set to slice 6 and 7 respectively?

EG # mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s6/mnt
and
# mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s7 /mnt
instead of just using s5

# newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s6
# mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s5 /mnt
# ufsdump 0f – /usr | ( cd /mnt ;ufsrestore xvf – )
# umount /mnt
# newfs /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0s7
# mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s5 /mnt
# ufsdump 0f – /var | ( cd /mnt ;ufsrestore xvf – )
# umount /mnt
Finally, the /usr/local partition
# mount -F ufs -o rw /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s5 /mnt
# ufsdump 0f – /usr/local | ( cd /mnt/local ;ufsrestore xvf – )
# umount /mnt

By: spiralbound.net » Taking Disk Cylinders From Swap on Solaris 8

spiralbound.net » Taking Disk Cylinders From Swap on Solaris 8 — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:31:11 +0000

[...] You can also use my instructions for copying a Solaris boot drive to a disk with a different partition layout as a safer alternative. [...]

By: Life After Coffee » Determining credibility of web resources

Life After Coffee » Determining credibility of web resources — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:35:01 +0000

[...] What is the reputation of the site in question from other, possibly more reputable sites? For instance, Cliff wrote some instructions on Solaris partitioning which were linked by Sun support shortly after that. A link like that gives a high level of confidence in the content presented. [...]

By: cliff

cliff — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:12:55 +0000

This sounds like it may be caused by mixed up device links. Did you rebilid them?

By: Jokerbone » Solaris partitioning

Jokerbone » Solaris partitioning — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 01:49:20 +0000

[...] I had great fun following this process today. I made it to the last bit, but after rebooting the system wants to mount / as a read-only file system, freaks out about not being able to create /tmp, execute cron jobs and do a handful of other really important things and then presents a login prompt. [...]

By: spiralbound.net » Rebuilding the Solaris Device Tree

spiralbound.net » Rebuilding the Solaris Device Tree — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:57:26 +0000

[...] If you ever shift around any bootable drives within a Sun Solaris box, you may find that either the device names (cxtxd0sx) do not follow the disk position within the server, or, the system just fails to boot because it can’t mount the other disk slices. [...]