VERITAS 4.1 Installation Guide (March 2006)

Removing Base-VXFS 4.1 and Base-VXVM 4.1

Chapter 642

* Beginning Execution

* The execution phase succeeded for "fslab02:/".

* Execution succeeded.

NOTE: More information may be found in the agent logfile using the

command "swjob -a log fslab02-0021 @ fslab02:/".

======= 08/24/05 16:06:02 IST END swremove SESSION (non-interactive)

(jobid=fslab02-0021)

Removing Base-VXVM 4.1

Base-VXVM 4.1 can be removed from systems only where the root disk is under HP Logical

Volume Manager (LVM) control. If you try to remove Base-VXVM 4.1 software from your

system without completing the following preparatory steps, you will lose data and your

system will be in an unstable state.

Make sure that you take a full backup of the data on your system before removing

Base-VXVM 4.1 software.

NOTE If Base-VXVM 4.1 rootability has been installed using either an Ignite-UX

installation, or by using the vxcp_lvmroot command, Base-VXVM 4.1 cannot

be removed until the root disk is under LVM control. If you have used

vxcp_lvmroot to make Base-VXVM 4.1 rootable, you can use the

vxres_lvmroot command to restore the root disk to LVM control.

Before removing the Base-VXVM 4.1, ensure that the following steps are completed:

• File systems and other applications that use volume devices must be modiﬁed to use the

underlying disks or logical volumes.

• File systems that has been created since Base-VXVM 4.1 was installed must be made

accessible through a disk or LVM logical volume.

• Copies of ﬁle systems must be removed to free up as much space as possible. If a volume

contains one of more plexes, all plexes except one have been removed. See “Removing

Plexes” on page 43.