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Parallels blogs my Solaris/Parallels post

The team over at Parallels noticed my Working with Solaris 10 in Parallels Desktop piece over on Coalface, and had a few nice words to say about me. In particular:

For those of you unfamiliar with Martin, he’s a well respected tech journalist who contributes to a number of leading tech magazines and all-around computer guru. He just wrote up a great blog post about Parallels Destkop for Computerworld, titled “Parallels Lowers the Impact of Boot Camp.”

Read the short, but sweet, full post

System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX directory trees

As an extension of the original filesystem piece, I’ve taken a closer look at the methods available for simply moving around directory trees on the Unix filesystem, including across a network.

Occasionally, you need to copy around an entire UNIX directory tree, either between areas on the same system or between different systems. There are many different methods of achieving this, but not all preserve the right amount of information or are compatible across different systems. This article discusses the various options available for UNIX and how best to make them work.

The article covers cp, tar, cpio and some basic scp examples.

Read System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX directory trees.

System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and moving UNIX filesystems

I’ve had more than one occasion when I’ve had to move a live filesystem to a new partition or new disk, whether its because I’m short on space on the original partition or through disk failure. I’ve put put my experience of that into my latest developerWorks article on how to move and migrate filesystems.

Read System Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and Moving UNIX filesystems.