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What’s the easiest way to uninstall veritas
> Hi, I have old veritas 3.x series an I wanted to uninstall it from my
> Solaris box, what would be easiest way to do to get this task accomplished?
> I do have root disk mirrored using veritas but its not a problem for me to
> take mirror disk out of the system.
>
> Thanks for pointing me into any links or instructions. Greatly do appreciate
> it.
>

copy /etc/vfstab.prevm /etc/vfstab
copy /etc/system.prevm /etc/system

(MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NO VOLUMES OUT THERE STILL UNDER VERITAS CONTROL)

reboot
pkgrm all the veritas product stuff.

[12:10:27] root@carlton: /etc/default >
[12:10:27] root@carlton: /etc/default > /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p
maxsize layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11
init=zero mirror=ctrl
1575968768
[12:14:50] root@carlton: /etc/default > /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg  make
vol01 1575968768s layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128
ncolumn=11 init=zero  comment=”main nfs stripe-pro partition” mirror=ctrl

date
/usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,largefiles /dev/vx/rdsk/nfsdg/vol01
1575968768

date

/usr/sbin/mount -F vxfs -o suid /dev/vx/dsk/nfsdg/vol01 /d

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[11:53:56] @carlton: /var/vx/isis > cat command.log
Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 14:51:40 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=2  init=zero
Output: 352747520
Exit Code: 0

Description: Calculate Maximum Volume Size
Date: Tue Sep  2 15:01:42 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg -p maxsize
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
mirror=ctrl
Output: 387977216
Exit Code: 0

Description: Create Volume
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:33 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/vxassist   -g nfsdg  make vol01 387977216s
layout=stripe-mirror,log  nmirror=2  stripeunit=128  ncolumn=11  init=zero
comment=”main stripe-pro partition” mirror=ctrl
Output:
Exit Code: 0

Description: File System Create
Date: Wed Sep  3 08:17:37 2003
Command: /usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o bsize=1024,largefiles
/dev/vx/rdsk/nfsdg/vol01 387977216  < /var/tmp/aaa00KN0F
Output:     version 5 layout
:     387977216 sectors, 193988608 blocks of size 1024, log size
16384 blocks
:     unlimited inodes, largefiles supported
:     193988608 data blocks, 193923312 free data blocks
:     5921 allocation units of 32768 blocks, 32768 data blocks
:     last allocation unit has 2048 data blocks
Exit Code: 0

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