ncsa-discussion digest, Vol 1 #65 - 1 msg
Ubiquitous Geebles
ncsa-discussion@ncsysadmin.org
Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:25:33 -0500
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<P>Many thanks, all. I will prolly not be able to sway the old-school DBA & his superior, but the other suggestions come up with here have been helpful. The wining suggestion, in case any of you ever need it is:</P>
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<P>Honestly, there's no easy way to do this that I can think of. UFS is a structured filesystem with i-nodes storing data, whereas "raw" partitions are just that, unformatted data space. Raw filesystems are managed by the database itself, instead of the OS. To do the conversion: </P>
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<P>Make a 500MB Veritas Volume and make sure to not put a filesystem on it. </P>
<P>2. Have the DBA initiallize the raw space in Oracle. </P>
<P>3. Have the DBA move data over to the new raw area.</P>
<P>4. Remove freed up .dbf files from UFS filesystems. </P>
<P>5. Remove any unused UFS filesystems </P>
<P>6. repeat with step #1 until done. </P></DIR></DIR>
<P></FONT>One at a time. Make another pot of coffee, Bob. I'm gonna need it. Many thanks to everyone who replied.<BR></P>
<P>Ubi Geebles<BR></P></DIV>
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