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A Parting Geek Gift
Every time I discover or solve a problem or one of you guys suggest a good solution to an issue I have now started sending an email to my auto post e-mail account (see To: address). Doing this automatically logs the tip on my http://UnixAdmin.ftmon.org website under the Tips […]

Current partition table (original): Total disk cylinders available: 11697 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 unassigned […]

cpio
The cpio command deals with the standard input so file system paths must be piped to it:
# Create archive.
cd /u01/app/oracle find admin | cpio -oc > /tmp/admin.cpio
# Restore archive.
cd /tmp cpio -idmv /tmp/admin.cpio
find archived | cpio -oc | ( rsh hostx-0165 “cd /app/das; cpio -idmuv” )
copied the contents of /var/adm to the /vxfs file […]