upgradation of VXFS

[satheeshnp]

Hi all,

Currently i am using 11.31 and 11.23 versions. I want to upgrade the filesystem version.

when i put fstyp -v , it gives the version as 6 for all mount points except /stand(Version 5). My task is to upgrade to latest version.

How we can upgrade. WAt is the command to upgrade.
Pls help

[Viktor Balogh]

you can upgrade it with the vxupgrade command

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90681/vxupgrade.1M.html

but I would not bother with the current version. Is there a good reason for upgrading? Be aware that /stand is a filesystem which is essential for a system boot. As far as I know, 11.23 and earlier system cannot boot from vxfs, only from hfs.

And maybe you will end up with an unbootable system even if it is a 11.31, I am not sure from what version of vxfs 11.31 can boot.

[Manix]

I recently used vxupgrade -v /mount_point
this should do the job !!

regarding the /stand fs ,looks @ JRF quote !!

As I recall, beginning with Itanium machines (rxNNNN) and 11.23, your '/stand' filesystem can be a VxFS one. This isn't true for PA-RISC though at that level.

The '/stand' directory has historically been a HFS filesystem. This is because the secondary loader ('hpux') needs to know how to locate '/stand/vmunix' to boot it and it only understands HFS filesystems.