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Uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation

If you need to uninstall the Veritas Storage Foundation software packages, use the uninstallation script.

The following procedures pertain to Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2, Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, and Veritas Storage Foundation for Sybase.

  Note   If you installed the French or Chinese versions of Veritas Volume Manager, the uninstallation script does not remove the French or Chinese language packages.

 To remove a Veritas Storage Foundation product

1. Comment out or remove any VERITAS File System (VxFS) entries from the file system table /etc/vfstab. Failing to remove these entries could result in system boot problems later.
2. Unmount all mount points for VxFS file systems.

   # umount /mount_point

3. If the VERITAS Volume Manager package (VRTSvxvm) is installed, read and follow the uninstallation procedures in the section titled Veritas Volume Manager.
4. Stop the VEA Service.

# /opt/VRTS/bin/vxsvcctrl stop

5. If you are uninstalling Veritas Storage Foundation for DB2 or Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle, stop the repository database and unmount the repository volume.

    

   In a stand-alone configuration:	Stop the database repository:  # /opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/sfua_db_config -o stopdb  Unmount the database repository:  # /opt/VRTSdbcom/config/sfua_rep_mount stop
   In an HA configuration:	Stop VCS processes on either the local system or all systems.  To stop VCS processes on the the local system:  # hastop -local  To stop VCS processes on all systems:  # hastop -all

6. Move to the /opt/VRTS/install directory on your system and use the uninstallation script to remove the Veritas Storage Foundation product installed on your system For example, to remove Veritas Storage Foundation:

   # cd /opt/VRTS/install

   # ./uninstallsf

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     Note   Most packages have kernel components. In order to ensure complete removal, a system reboot is recommended after all packages have been removed.

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7. To verify the removal of the packages, use the pkginfo command.

   # pkginfo | grep VRTS