On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Decibel! <decibel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jun 19, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Carol Walter wrote: >> >> I just did an upgrade from 8.1 to 8.2.3. We'll go up to 8.3.3 very soon, >> but for reasons I won't go into, this intermediate step was necessary. My >> problem is, now that the upgrade is done, how can I clean up the database >> from the old version. I leave the original database up as long as I can >> when I do an upgrade just in case I need to revert to it. Now I have the >> databases from two versions on my server and I need to get rid of the old >> one. Can I just remove the old files from the data directories? With other >> systems, I've had trouble removing database files because upgrades use >> certain files from old versions. I don't want to break my new database. >> I'm on Solaris 10. > > > Not only does the new version not use files from the old, it doesn't even > know it exists. You can just nuke all the 8.1 stuff. If you're paranoid, then you can also do: sudo chmod 000 /old/data/dir and see if anything breaks.
