Installation Guide

During pass 4, fsck displays several error messages that require a yes response to complete
the conversion process.
7. VxFS file systems with disk layout 4, 5, 6 and 7 can still be mounted with VxFS 5.1 SP1.
However, to upgrade the disk layout version of mounted file systems to 8, use the vxupgrade
command, as follows:
a. To upgrade a mounted VxFS file system from disk layout 4 to disk layout 8, enter the
following commands:
# vxupgrade -n 5 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 6 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 7 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 8 <mount_point>
b. To upgrade a mounted VxFS file system from disk layout 5 to disk layout 8 enter the
following commands:
# vxupgrade -n 6 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 7 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 8 <mount_point>
c. To upgrade a mounted VxFS file system from disk layout 6 to disk layout 8 enter the
following command:
# vxupgrade -n 7 <mount_point>
# vxupgrade -n 8 <mount_point>
d. To upgrade a mounted VxFS file system from disk layout 7o disk layout 8 enter the
following command:
# vxupgrade -n 8 <mount_point>
8. To verify the conversion, enter the following command:
# fstyp -v <vol_name>
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