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'df' reports space in512 byte blocks (by default).
Use 'dfspace' as it reports the same information but displays it in a more easily read format

-bash-3.2# df                                                           
/         (/dev/root        ): 53340520 blocks  1693329 i-nodes         
/stand    (/dev/boot        ):    14120 blocks     3259 i-nodes         
/u        (/dev/u           ): 59918848 blocks  1902144 i-nodes         
/home     (/dev/home        ): 19085536 blocks  1230809 i-nodes         
-bash-3.2# dfspace                                                      
/         : Disk space: 26045.17 MB of 31899.99 MB available (81.65%).  
/stand    : Disk space:     6.89 MB of    12.75 MB available (54.04%).  
/u        : Disk space: 29257.24 MB of 31899.99 MB available (91.72%).  
/home     : Disk space:  9319.10 MB of 11519.72 MB available (80.90%).  
                                                                        
Total Disk Space: 64628.42 MB of 75332.47 MB available (85.79%).        
-bash-3.2#
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Hi, great, thanks.

As for the hard drive I have ended up, redoing everything from scratch and starting with a bigger hd.

Now I have to transfer the contents of the old (physical) system to the virtual one.

The old system has the cobol programs, the cobol microfocus and a utility called xmenu that we use to invoke in a user friendly way the cobol programs.

Any suggestions on how to transfer this?

Thanks in advance

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Assuming that you have tcp running on the old system:
Use tar to save the files in an archive, making sure that each archive is less than 2gb, then use ftp to send the tar archive to the new system, and then extract the archive in the same location.
You can use 'ap' to copy all the user accounts and passwords, although if you have had the old system for 10 or more years, there may be lots of accounts you no longer need.
If you use 'ap' then the uid numbers are copied as well, so that file permissions remain the same when tar files are extracted. Note that ap does not copy user home directories.
Copy all the files in /usr/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces for any special printer settings.
Check in /usr/bin, and /bin for custom programs, you can do this by:

cd /usr/bin
ls -l |grep -v @

This will list all scripts/programs which are not linked to the standard distribution. It is not foolproof, but may help.

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Hi,

Thanks a lot, will try that later this afternoon.
I dont have the installation disks neither for microfocus nor for xmenu, by following your instructions will they be copied and work in the new system?

Appreciate your help.
Cheers

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Yes...but Microfocus use license enforcement (copy protection) on (some of) their products. The version that I have will not just copy from one machine to another, it has to be re-installed

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Hi,

Well I have finally restored files from the old system... but, when I try cobrun (the cobol runtime from microfocus) i get :

dynamic liner: /opt/lib/cobol/rts32: error opening libmbcs.so.2.0
Killed

The file is there... any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Best regards

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My suggestion would be to create a new thread for this problem.

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