InfoScale™ 9.0 Installation Guide - Solaris

To uninstall VxVM if root, swap, usr, or var is a volume under Volume Manager control

1. Ensure that the rootvol, swapvol, usr, and var volumes have only one associated plex each.

   The plex must be contiguous, non-striped, non-spanned, and non-sparse. To obtain this information, enter the following:

   # vxprint -ht rootvol swapvol usr var

   If any of these volumes have more than one associated plex, remove the unnecessary plexes using the following command:

   # vxplex -g diskgroup -o rm dis plex_name

2. Run the vxunroot command:

   # /etc/vx/bin/vxunroot

   The vxunroot command changes the volume entries in /etc/vfstab to the underlying disk partitions for rootvol, swapvol, usr, and var. It also modifies /etc/system and prompts for a restart so that disk partitions are mounted instead of volumes for root, swap, usr, and var.

3. Once you have changed the root, swap, usr, and var volumes, move all remaining volumes to disk partitions.

   You can do this using one of the following procedures:

   • Back up the entire system to tape and then recover from tape.

   • Back up each file system individually and then recover them all after you create new file systems on disk partitions.

   • Move volumes incrementally to disk partitions.

     Otherwise, shut down VxVM.