Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide (September 2006)

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3 Upgrading to VxFS 5.0
This chapter discusses the following VxFS upgrade paths:
• VxFS 3.3 or 3.5 on 11i version 1 to VxFS 5.0 on 11i version 2
• VxFS 3.5 on 11i version 2 to VxFS 5.0 on 11i version 2
• VxFS 4.1 on 11i version 2 to VxFS 5.0 on 11i version 2
CAUTION You must ensure that:
• You do not upgrade the operating system and the Veritas products
simultaneously. HP recommends that you first upgrade the operating
system and later upgrade the Veritas products.
• In the file system upgrade procedures below, you do not upgrade / and
/stand file systems to Disk Layout Version 6 or Disk Layout Version 7. The
HP-UX boot loader does not support the Disk Layout Version 6 or Disk
Layout 7.
NOTE In VxFS 4.1 the default disk layout was version 6. File system commands like
df, bdf, fstyp and mount that use the API functions statfsdev (),
fstatfsdev (), statvfsdev (), or fsstatvfsdev () failed because the libc
library did not recognise the new Disk Layout Version 6. Applications using
statvfsdev() had to be linked with the new NCF library to recognize Disk
Layout Version 6.
In 5.0, the default disk layout is version 7, so the file system commands
delivered with this product have been relinked to support Disk Layout Version
7. However, third-party Applications must be relinked again in order to
recognize Disk Layout Version 7.
VxFS 3.3 or 3.5 on 11i version 1 to VxFS 5.0 on 11i version 2
To upgrade from VxFS 3.5 on 11i version 1 to VxFS 5.0 on 11i version 2, complete the
following steps:
1. To determine the volume names, enter the following: