Installation and Upgrade Guide

— PAGEFILE.SYS
— SWAPFILE.SYS
• In target-disk:[VMS$COMMON.SYSEXE]:
— LMF$LICENSE.LDB
— PCSI$FILE_SYSTEM.PCSI$DATABASE
— PCSI$PROCESSOR.PCSI$DATABASE
— PCSI$ROOT.PCSI$DATABASE
— RIGHTSLIST.DAT
— SYSUAF.DAT
As you examine the preceding lists of files, you might want to archive, rather than delete,
the following files:
• IA64VMSSYS.PAR (OpenVMS I64 systems)
• MODPARAMS.DAT
• LMF$LICENSE.LDB
• RIGHTSLIST.DAT
• SYSUAF.DAT
Also, if you previously removed layered products, those products might have created
additional files that you might want to delete, move, or archive.
7. Review the target disk for the directory structures [VMS$COMMON...] and [SYSx...] that
remain after you remove the OpenVMS operating system. You might want to delete these
directories.
Note that the directories [SYSx]SYSCOMMON.DIR (in all [SYSx]) are aliases for the file
[000000]VMS$COMMON.DIR. Do not delete these SYSCOMMON.DIR files. Instead, use
the SET FILE /REMOVE command as follows:
$ SET FILE /REMOVE [SYS*]SYSCOMMON.DIR
After you execute this command and delete, move or archive all the files in
[VMS$COMMON...], you can delete [000000]VMS$COMMON.DIR. Then you can delete,
move, or archive the files in each [SYSx] directory.
268 Removing the OpenVMS Operating System