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Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

This section describes how to uninstall Veritas Storage Foundation Basic.

 To uninstall Veritas Storage Foundation Basic

1. Move all of your data off any VxVM volumes or VxFS file systems that you have created. Unmount all VxFS file systems, and stop any applications that may be accessing VxVM volumes.
2. Change directory to /opt/VRTS/install, and run the uninstallsf program.

   # cd /opt/VRTS/install

   # ./uninstallsf

   Enter the system names separated by spaces on which

   to uninstall SF: host1 host2

3. Enter the system names on which the software is installed. You are prompted to press Return to continue.

   Press [Return] to continue:

4. Press Return to continue. You are prompted to uninstall the Storage Foundation Basic packages.

   uninstallsf is now ready to uninstall SF.

   All SF processes that are currently running must be stopped.

   Are you sure you want to uninstall SF packages? [y,n,q] (y)

5. Enter y to uninstall the Storage Foundation Basic packages. You are prompted to press Return to continue.

   Storage Foundation Basic package uninstall completed

   successfully.

   Press [Return] to continue:

   Press Return to continue after the Storage Foundation Basic package uninstall completed successfully.

Uninstall completed successfully on all systems

Uninstallation log files, summary file, and response file

are saved at:

/opt/VRTS/install/logs/uninstallsf-7TdmtZ

NOTICE: As part of the uninstallation process on Linux,

the current configuration of VxVM was saved in the directory

/VXVM-CFG-BAK. This configuration may be used in a future

installation of VxVM. If you do not plan to reuse it, you

may manually remove this subdirectory.

It is suggested that you archive the saved files for review in the event that they are needed at a future date.