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Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Installation Guide: Live Upgrade and Upgrade Planning Oracle Solaris 10 1/13 Information Library |
Part I Upgrading With Live Upgrade
1. Where to Find Oracle Solaris Installation Planning Information
4. Using Live Upgrade to Create a Boot Environment (Tasks)
5. Upgrading With Live Upgrade (Tasks)
6. Failure Recovery: Falling Back to the Original Boot Environment (Tasks)
7. Maintaining Live Upgrade Boot Environments (Tasks)
Overview of Live Upgrade Maintenance
Maintenance Activities for Boot Environments
Displaying the Status of All Boot Environments
Updating a Previously Configured Boot Environment
Canceling a Scheduled Create, Upgrade, or Copy Job
Deleting an Inactive Boot Environment
Displaying the Name of the Active Boot Environment
Changing the Name of a Boot Environment
8. Upgrading the Oracle Solaris OS on a System With Non-Global Zones Installed
Part II Upgrading and Migrating With Live Upgrade to a ZFS Root Pool
10. Live Upgrade and ZFS (Overview)
11. Live Upgrade for ZFS (Planning)
12. Creating a Boot Environment for ZFS Root Pools
13. Live Upgrade for ZFS With Non-Global Zones Installed
A. Live Upgrade Command Reference
C. Additional SVR4 Packaging Requirements (Reference)
You can associate a description with a boot environment name. The description never replaces the name. Although a boot environment name is restricted in length and characters, the description can be of any length and of any content. The description can be simple text or as complex as a gif file. You can create this description at these times:
When you create a boot environment with the lucreate command and use the -A option. For more information, see How to Create a Boot Environment for the First Time.
After the boot environment has been created by using the ludesc command. For more information, see the ludesc(1M) man page.
The syntax for the ludesc command is as follows:
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -n BE-name 'BE-description' -f filename
Specifies the boot environment name.
Specifies the new description to be associated with the name.
Specifies the file to be associated with a boot environment name.
Example 7-5 Adding a Description to a Boot Environment Name With Text
In this example, a boot environment description is added to a boot environment that is named second_disk. The description is text that is enclosed in single quotes.
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -n second_disk 'Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 test build'
Example 7-6 Adding a Description to a Boot Environment Name With a File
In this example, a boot environment description is added to a boot environment that is named second_disk. The description is contained in a gif file.
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -n second_disk -f rose.gif
Example 7-7 Displaying a Boot Environment Name From a Description
In this example, the name of the boot environment, second_disk, is displayed by using the -A option with the description.
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -A 'Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 test build' second_disk
Example 7-8 Displaying a Boot Environment Name From a Description in a File
In this example, the name of the boot environment, second_disk, is dsiplayed by using the -f option and the name of the file that contains the description.
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -f rose.gif second_disk
Example 7-9 Displaying a Boot Environment Description From a Name
In this example, the description is displayed by using the -n option with the boot environment name.
# /usr/sbin/ludesc -n second_disk Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 test build
Use the lufslist command to list the configuration of a boot environment. The output contains the disk slice (file system), file system type, and file system size for each boot environment mount point.
The syntax for the lufslist command is as follows:
# lufslist -n BE-name
Specifies the name of the boot environment to view file system specifics
The following example displays a list.
Filesystem fstype size(MB) Mounted on ------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 swap 512.11 - /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s3 ufs 3738.29 / /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s4 ufs 510.24 /opt
Note - For an example of a list that contains non-global zones, see To View the Configuration of a Boot Environment's Non-Global Zone File Systems.