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NAME [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade - upgrade the disk layout of a VxFS file system
SYNOPSIS [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade [-n new_version] [-r rawdev] mount_point
DESCRIPTION [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade prints the current disk layout version number for a VxFS
file system or upgrades the file system to a new disk layout.
vxupgrade operates on file systems mounted for read/write access:
mount_point must be a mounted VxFS file system. Only a privileged
user can query or upgrade a VxFS file system.
When invoked with the -n option, vxupgrade upgrades the disk layout to
the specified version. When invoked without the -n option, vxupgrade
prints the disk layout version number of the file system.
To perform an upgrade, vxupgrade freezes the file system, allocates
and initializes the new structures, frees the space used by the old
structures, and then thaws the file system. This process should not
keep the file system frozen for more than a few seconds.
vxupgrade employs a lock file (lost+found/.fsadm) on the file system
to ensure that only one instance of vxupgrade is running at any time.
vxupgrade and fsadm cannot run simultaneously, so the lock file also
ensures that vxupgrade does not run while a file system reorganization
is in progress. When vxupgrade is invoked for an upgrade, it opens
the lock file in the root of the file system specified by mount_point.
If the lock file doesn't exist, it is created. The fcntl(2) system
call is used to obtain a write lock on the file. If the write lock
fails, vxupgrade fails, assuming that another vxupgrade or an fsadm is
running.
Options [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade recognizes the following options:
-n new_version Upgrade disk layout to new_version.
new_version can be 3, 4, or 5.
-r rawdev Use the pathname rawdev as the raw device.
This option can be used when vxupgrade cannot
determine which raw device corresponds to the
mount_point (when /etc/mnttab is corrupted,
for example).
Operands [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade recognizes the following operand:
mount_point A mounted VxFS file system.
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Free Space Requirement [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade requires free space on the file system to perform the
upgrade; the upgrade may fail if there is not enough free space. It
is difficult to determine the exact amount of space required to
upgrade a VxFS file system, however, you can estimate the maximum
space required.
To upgrade a disk layout Version 2 file system with n * 1024 inodes
(allocated only) and m * 32768 blocks to disk layout Version 3, the
worst-case minimum value is at least n * 2432 bytes + m * 8220 bytes +
115 kilobytes, in extents of 8 kilobytes or larger. Free extents of
larger than 8 kilobytes may be required, so this is only a lower bound
on the worst-case minimum required. Since this is the worst-case
minimum, it may be possible to upgrade with less free space available.
After an upgrade to a new disk layout is completed, all of this free
space, plus some additional free space, will be reclaimed.
You cannot upgrade a Version 2 disk layout to Version 4 directly. You
must first upgrade from Version 2 to a Version 3 disk layout, and then
upgrade to Version 4. The upgrade may fail due to a lack of space at
each step.
Notes [Toc] [Back]
Once a file system has been upgraded to Version 3, it is no longer
mountable on HP-UX 10.01 and 10.10.
Once a file system has been upgraded to Version 4, it is no longer
mountable on:
+ HP-UX 10.x
+ HP-UX 11.0 without JFS 3.3 from Application CD
Version 4 file systems are mountable on:
+ HP-UX 11.0 with JFS 3.3 from Application CD
+ HP-UX 11.1x
You cannot upgrade the root (/) or /usr file systems to Version 4 on
an 11.0 system running JFS 3.3 from the Application CD. Additionally,
we do not advise upgrading the /var or /opt file systems to Version 4
on an 11.0 system. These core file systems are crucial for system
recovery. The HP-UX 11.0 kernel and emergency recovery media were
built with an older version of JFS that does not recognize the Version
4 disk layout. If these file systems were upgraded to Version 4, your
system would fail to boot with the 11.0 kernel as delivered or the
emergency recovery media. You can, however, upgrade these core file
systems to Version 4 on an HP-UX 11.1x system.
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Disk layout versions cannot be downgraded, for example, you cannot
change a file system from disk layout version 4 to disk layout version
3.
A file system cannot be upgraded from a Version 3 disk layout to a
Version 4 disk layout if its intent log size is less than 256
kilobytes.
After upgrading from a Version 2 disk layout, run fsadm -c mount-point
to convert the inode format to allow growth beyond a two-gigabyte
offset.
RETURN VALUE [Toc] [Back]
vxupgrade returns the following values:
0 Successful completion.
1 Upgrade failed due to lack of disk space.
2 Some other error occurred.
32 Specified mount_point is not a VxFS file system.
FILES [Toc] [Back]
mount_point/lost+found/.fsadm Lock file
mount_point/quotas External quotas file
SEE ALSO [Toc] [Back]
fsadm_vxfs(1M), mkfs_vxfs(1M), quotaon(1M), vxfsconvert(1M), fcntl(2),
fs_vxfs(4), vxfsio(7).
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