From: Amado (sunlover@gramajo.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 10:40:39 EST
How about the reverse? Can Solaris 8, read Solaris 9 partitions?
I had to reinstall Solaris 8 because OVO would not install on 9. But, I
wanted to preserve my home directory which contains all the installation
files. Problem is, after I layout, install claims it cannot mount
filesytems and aborts.
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Subject: SUMMARY: Installing different release of Solaris - effects
onreading older file systems? From: "Steve Howie" <showie@uoguelph.ca>
Date: Thu, December 11, 2003 9:28 am
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
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God I love this list - 6 responses within an hour!
Anyway thanks to the following who replied
Rich Teer
Jay Lessart
Casper Dik
David Foster
Angel Alejandro Vega Sota
Jin Vandevegt
Luc I Suryo
Eli Shamszadeh
Geoff Reed
Michael Lehmann
The unanimous verdict is that it's no problem whatsoever, aside from
obvious things like not letting the install program access the second
disk and accidently newfs partitions on it. I should also point out my
choice of words wasn't the best when I posed the original question - I
meant to say *install* Solaris 9 over the Solaris 8 system, not
*upgrade* Sol8 -> Sol9. No matter - it's still ok for Solaris 9 to read
Solaris 8 formatted file systems
Thanks again to those who responded!
Scotty
Original message:
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Howdy,
>
> We have an 18Gb. disk installed in a 280R containing only user data.
This disk (not the root volume) was partitioned and file systems created
using Solaris 8. If we were to upgrade the OS on the 280R to Solaris 9 -
not involving this disk in the install process for any file systems such
as /var or whatever, would there be any filesystem related issues after
remounting the file systems on this disk under the new operating system?
Problems accessing the data? Unix 'format' command problems? etc
>
> In other words, can Solaris 9 access correctly file systems created
under Solaris 8?
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