Environment
PlateSpin Protect 10.x and above
PlateSpin Forge 3.x and above
PlateSpin Migrate 9.x and above
Situation
This article provides a list of commands that PowerConvert will execute on a Linux servers during discovery and conversions.
Resolution
Disk/Partition/Volume related:
- sfdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux
- mount - mount a file system
- umount - unmount file systems
- mkfs.vfat - create an MS-DOS file system under Linux
- mkreiserfs - create a Linux Reiserfs file system
- mke2fs - create a Linux second extended file system
- mkswap - set up a Linux swap area
- swapon - enable devices and files for paging and swapping
- e2label - Change the label on an ext2 filesystem
- dd - convert and copy a file
- du - estimate file space usage
- df - report filesystem disk space usage
- pvscan - scan all disks for physical volumes
- vgscan - scan all disks for volume groups and rebuild caches
- lvscan - scan all disks for logical volumes
- pvdisplay - display attributes of a physical volume
- vgdisplay - display attributes of volume groups
- lvdisplay - display attributes of a logical volume
- lvcreate - create a logical volume in an existing volume group
- pvcreate - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
- vgcreate - create a volume group
Network related:
- route - show / manipulate the IP routing table
- hostname - show or set the systems' host name
- ifconfig - configure a network interface
- /etc/init.d/network - service scrip to start/stop network
Device/Driver related:
- lspci - list all PCI devices
- insmod - insert a module into the Linux Kernel
- rmmod - remove a module from the Linux Kernel
- modprobe - add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel
- lsmod - show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel
- depmod - generate modules.dep and map files
- kudzu - detects and configures new and/or changed hardware on a system
Bootloader related:
- grub - the grub shell, to install and configure grub
Others:
- perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
- awk - pattern scanning and processing language
- sed - a stream editor
- grep - print lines matching a pattern
- find - search for files in a directory hierarchy
- mkinitrd - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules
- chkconfig - updates and queries runlevel information for system services
- rpm - RPM Package Manager
- tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
- cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
- rm - remove files or directories
- cd - change directory
- chroot - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
- echo - display a line of text
Change Log
removed esx commands as they are no longer relevant.