VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Release Notes (5187-1878, December 2002)

VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Release Notes

Removing VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Product

Chapter 1

Removing VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS

3.5) Product

IMPORTANT Because VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) makes changes to the

HP-UX kernel when it is installed, the product may not remove completely using the

following procedure. If you experience any problems with removing the VERITAS File

System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) product, contact HP's Technical Support for

assistance.

Step 1. Log in as root.

Step 2. Check the /etc/vx/tunefstab file and remove the three base/fullVxFS 3.5 tunable

settings: hsm_write_prealloc, read_ahead, and write_throttle

These three tunables are added when the base/full VxFS 3.5 product is installed. The HP

OnLineJFS/JFS 3.3 vxtunefs command does not recognize the base/full VxFS 3.5

tunables therefore the command fails when trying to access these non-existent tunables.

Step 3. Remove all of the base/full VxFS 3.5 software, enter:

swremove -x autoreboot=true BaseVxFS

CAUTION Do not remove the VRTSvlic product if there are any other VERITAS products running

on your system. The VRTSvlic product should not be removed as it is a common

licensing utility used for all other VERITAS products; removal of this may cause errors

with the use of other VERITAS products.

The following sample output illustrates the messages that appear during the software

removal process:

======= 06/28/02 14:17:47 PDT BEGIN swremove SESSION

(non-interactive) (jobid=sysname-0061)

* [120061] Session started for user “root@sysname”.

* [120020] Beginning Selection

* [120002] Options:

preview no

target type root

linkinstall no

verbose 1

option file

session file

software file

target file

* [120116] Target connection succeeded for “rossi:/”.

WARNING: [120500] The software specified contains a kernel

fileset. It will be necessary to reconfigure the kernel and

reboot the system to remove the functionality from the kernel.

Deinstalling VERITAS File System Software

* [120087] Software selections:

[120086] BaseVxFS,r=3.5-ga09,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_64,v=HP

[120086] VRTSvlic.VLIC-RUN,l=/,r=3.00.007e,

a=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64,v=VERITAS,fr=3.00.007e,

fa=HP-UX_B.11.00_32/64