Starting with AIX 6.1 (TL4?), you can use the alt_disk_copy command to convert rootvg file systems from jfs to jfs2. The man page for the alt_disk_copy command states the following:

 

-T Indicates that you want to convert JFS file systems to JFS2 file systems during the process of recreating the rootvg volume group on target disks.

 

As an example, to clone a running systems rootvg to hdisk2, and convert the rootvg file systems from JFS to JFS2, you would run the following command:

 

# alt_disk_copy -T -d hdisk2

 

Good to know!

 

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