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: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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? _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Dec 11 09:33:51 2003
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