syncroot Command

Purpose

Synchronizes a non-shared portion of installed software with a shared part.

Syntax

/usr/sbin/syncroot [ [ -a ] [ -i ] | [ -F ] [ -r ] ] [ -p ] [ -v ] [ -X ]

Flags

Item	Description
-a	Performs additional installation only. Does not downlevel the installp file sets (that is, uninstall, reject, force overwrite). Not valid with the -r flag.
-i	Only updates installp file sets. Not valid with the -r flag.
-F	Forces copy RPM files. Not valid with the -i flag.
-r	Only updates RPM files. Not valid with the -i flag.
-p	Previews operation. Do not actually performs the synchronization.
-v	Specifies the verbose mode.
-X	Expands file systems if necessary and possible.

Note: If you are logged into a version 6 workload partition, on a version 7 global system, and run the syncroot command, the operation will fail with the following error:

syncroot: Processing root part installation status.
Your global system is at a higher version than the WPAR.
Please log out of the WPAR and execute the migwpar command.
syncroot: Returns Status = FAILURE

Security

Access Control: Only the root user can run this command.

Examples

To update all installp filesets in the root part, enter:
```
# syncroot -i
```
To perform an update of all RPM files and expand space automatically (if needed and possible ), enter:
```
# syncroot -r -X
```