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Converting a file system to VxFS

The vxfsconvert command can be used to convert a ext2 or ext3 file system to a VxFS file system.

  Note   Creating a VxFS file system on a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) or Multiple Device (MD) driver volume is not supported in this release. You also must convert an underlying LVM to a VxVM volume before converting an ext2 or ext3 file system to a VxFS file system.

See the vxvmconvert(1M) manual page.

See the vxfsconvert(1M) manual page.

 To convert a ext2 or ext3 file system to a VxFS file system

• Use the vxfsconvert command to convert a ext2 or ext3 file system to VxFS:

vxfsconvert [-l logsize] [-s size] [-efnNvyY] special