List of commands used when discovering and converting Linux workloads

 This article provides a list of commands that PowerConvert will execute on a Linux servers during discovery and conversions.

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