Raw device size checking

How i can check the /dev/raw/raw* size and all information regarding that.

Have you tried /sbin/fdisk -l <device>
raw device permissions
raw device access checking

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Raw Device Validation Check for Name Failed..

Hi all,
I have installed Oracle Clusterware 10.2.0.4 and Oracle database software 10.2.0.4 on Solaris SPARC 10 and i using a NAS storage for the same
And when i try to create a database using DBCA i got the following error.
Raw Device Validation Check for Name /u03/oradata/spfile/spfile{SID}.ora failed. The specified file /u01/oradata/spfile/spfile{SID}.ora doesnot exit.Please a existing file.
Note: i am not using ASM., i am using RAW device for Database
Any help highly thankful
-Arun

Hi
this is how i have mounted the NAS...
10.0.0.0:/vol/prodt3_vol16/ora_dbfr_inn1s - /u07/DBFR/INS nfs - yes rw,bg,hard,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,proto=tcp,noac,forcedirectio,vers=3,suid
how do i ensure that it is not being used....we should not use ASM its an client requinment ...
Thanks

RAW device validation check

While configuing database using DBCA it shows
"Raw device validation check for Control file "/var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl"
failed, stat for /var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl failed.

Do you really want to create a database on raw devives or did you accidently select the 'raw device' button? "/var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/control01.ctl" doesn't look like a raw device, it could be at most a link. Generally raw devices can be checked with 'dd if=<shared config file> of=/dev/null bs=<db_block_size>' .
Werner

Raw device size

How can we find the raw device size from OS level?

Thanks Chandra!!
Still I can't see the size of the file.
lsattr -E -l rrawspace68
lsattr: 0514-519 The following device was not found in the customized
device configuration database:
rrawspace68
When I do the following
lsattr -E -l rawspace68 => output is as followed
copies 2 Number of physical partitions e
inter x Policy for allocation over mule
intra m Policy for allocation on physie
label None Information label e
lvserial_id 000c8c900000d60000000120a0521407.68 Volume group identifier . minoe
relocatable y Bad block relocatable policy e
size 40 Number of logical partitions ie
strictness y Copies allocation policy e
stripe_size Stripe Size e
stripe_width 0 Striping Width e
type raw Type description e
upperbound 128 Number of physical volumes to e
How can we figure-it-out the size of the device?
Thanks
Srini

Raw device access checking

how i can check that OCR & Voting disk can access raw devices? & how i can check the size of raw devices also?

Once you find the raw devices, see your thread from yesterday on the subject, you can /sbin/fdisk -l <device name> to find information about the size.

Root.sh failed:Raw devices for OEL 5.3 and 10.2.0.4 RAC

Hi
We have OEL 5.3 and Oracle RAC 10.2.0.4
While installing clusterware and running root.sh we are getting the error
Failed to upgrade the cluster registry.
Further the ocrconfig.log are as below:
ocrconfig_20527.log
Oracle Database 10g CRS Release 10.2.0.1.0 Production Copyright 1996, 2005 Oracle. All rights reserved.
2009-08-04 04:38:41.540: [ OCRCONF][286303376]ocrconfig starts...
2009-08-04 04:38:41.540: [ OCRCONF][286303376]Upgrading OCR data
2009-08-04 04:38:41.615: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriogid:1: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ OCRRAW][286303376]ibctx:1:ERROR: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ OCRRAW][286303376]proprinit:problem reading the bootblock or superbloc 22
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ default][286303376]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [22]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ OCRCONF][286303376]Exporting OCR data to [OCRUPGRADEFILE]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ OCRAPI][286303376]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [33]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.616: [ OCRCONF][286303376]There was no previous version of OCR. error:[PROC-33: Oracle Cluster Registry is not configured]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.619: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriogid:1: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.619: [ OCRRAW][286303376]ibctx:1:ERROR: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.619: [ OCRRAW][286303376]proprinit:problem reading the bootblock or superbloc 22
2009-08-04 04:38:41.619: [ default][286303376]a_init:7!: Backend init unsuccessful : [22]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.623: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriogid:1: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.623: [ OCRRAW][286303376]ibctx:1:ERROR: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.623: [ OCRRAW][286303376]proprinit:problem reading the bootblock or superbloc 22
2009-08-04 04:38:41.626: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriogid:1: INVALID FORMAT
2009-08-04 04:38:41.641: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriowv: Vote information on disk 0 [dev/raw/raw1] is adjusted from [0/0] to [2/2]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.646: [ OCRRAW][286303376]propriniconfig:No 92 configuration
2009-08-04 04:38:41.646: [ OCRAPI][286303376]a_init:6a: Backend init successful
2009-08-04 04:38:41.663: [ OCRCONF][286303376]Initialized DATABASE keys in OCR
2009-08-04 04:38:41.677: [ OCRCONF][286303376]csetskgfrblock0: clsfmt returned with error [4].
2009-08-04 04:38:41.677: [ OCRCONF][286303376]Failure in setting block0 [-1]
2009-08-04 04:38:41.677: [ OCRCONF][286303376]OCR block 0 is not set !
2009-08-04 04:38:41.678: [ OCRCONF][286303376]Exiting [status=failed]...
Any solution please?
Supriya Sh

There are a couple of errors that doesn't make the clusterware look fine.
There was no previous version of OCR. error:PROC-33: Oracle Cluster Registry is not configured
proprinit:problem reading the bootblock or superbloc 22
This could mean either your cluster registry file is corrupt or you don't have access to the raw devices. Check the access to the shared storage raw device is valid. If this is not true, then make sure you have all your backup files ready.
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Oracle 9.2 RAC installation error on raw devices

During Oracle 9.2 RAC installation on Linux Red Hat 7.3 on raw devices
Database Configuration Assistant
returned the error message:
"Raw device validation check for Data File
"/dev/raw/clustdb_raw_cwmlite_100m" failed, No such file or directory".
Really this file exists, this is a link to a raw device.
How does Oracle validate the raw file?
What does this error mean?
Igor.

During Oracle 9.2 RAC installation on Linux Red Hat 7.3 on raw devices
Database Configuration Assistant
returned the error message:
"Raw device validation check for Data File
"/dev/raw/clustdb_raw_cwmlite_100m" failed, No such file or directory".
Really this file exists, this is a link to a raw device.OK, so you are saying that /dev/raw/clustdb_raw_cwmlite_100m is link to /dev/raw/raw<x> (x some number)??
If not - there is your error.
How does Oracle validate the raw file?File MUST exists (or link) AND it must be a RAW device.
You can check it by raw -qa (it should display all raw devices, with theirs major-minor pairs)
What does this error mean?
Igor. Hrvoje

Raw device valiadation during dbca RAC installation

When i am trying to create Cluster DB by using dbca, i received
"Raw device validation check for control file /var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/Control01.ctl" failed stat for /var/opt/oracle/oradata/orcl/Control01.ctl file failed.
Any idea about this error........
My Env: oracle 9.2.0.4, RH 2.1AS, OCFS.
Thanks.

I followed metalink Doc ID:217319.1 Raw Device Validation Check When Using DBCA to Create a RAC Databae.
but no use.
Any idea why i am getting this error.
Thanks.

Raw device issus

While installing Oracle 10gR2 on Linux platform i face following problem
Raw device validation check for name /dev/vgsys/rspfile failed. File /dev/vgsys/rspfile does not exists .

duplicate thread
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How to check space on asm and raw device?

Hi All,
I want to know how to check the space on asm device.
we are using asm device which is on raw partition.
Our archive gets full.I need to check the space on asm archve partiotion.
how can i check the archive destination space?
we are using raw device partition for crs and voting device.
how can we check the space on raw device and how can we know which device is in use and which are not in use
Thanks in advance

4 - 5 raw partitions...
What oracle version?
Install OCR + VOTE in raw device better than OCFS2. if you use 10g to 11gR1.
If use 11gR2,keep OCR + VOTE in ASM Disk Group.
you can check which raw device OCR:
$ ocrcheck
VOTEDISK:
$ crsctl query css votedisk
On 10g if use raw device for OCR + votedisk: recommend 1 file = 250M
11g recommend 1 file = 512M
Good Luck

Checking Raw devices on Linux box

How i can check raw device configured on Linux box?
Like System admin configured dev/raw/raw1 and dev/raw/raw2
how i can check this? With df command i am not seeing this...

Is it Ok for RAC or not
[oracle@test1 ~]$ sudo raw -qa
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 1
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 2
/dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 8, minor 3
[oracle@test2 ~]$ sudo raw -qa
/dev/raw/raw1: bound to major 8, minor 49
/dev/raw/raw2: bound to major 8, minor 50
/dev/raw/raw3: bound to major 8, minor 51

Urgent : OS Block header size (convert raw device to filesystem using dd)

Hi,
We need to convert oracle datafiles raw devices to filesystem.
Environment: Oracle 8.1.7 on solaris 8.
Our unix team is unable to tell the value of os block header size to be used for skip/iseek parameter of "dd" command. I know that rman "copy datafile" can be used but it does not help for converting redo log files.
could someone please help.
Thanks.
Rakesh

DB has been shutdown, cold backups have been taken and cannot make any changes at this point.
Is it so tough to know this value ?
Just to clarify, in the following dd command, what should be the value of skip :
dd if=/dev/rdsk/rawfile1of=/data/file1 bs=8192 skip=??? count=100000
Thanks,
Rakesh

Is this a bug in APEX 3.0.1 Installation RAC database with RAW device???

Hello,
I am getting the following error when I try to complete approval process.
ORA-20001: Unable to create tablespace. ORA-01
119: error in creating database file '//./FLOW_1.dbf' ORA-27040: skgfrcre: creat
e error, unable to create file OSD-04002: unable to open file O/S-Error: (OS 2)
The system cannot find the file specified.
I checked the alert log for error here is the error in the alert log file.
ORA-1119 signalled during: CREATE TABLESPACE FLOW_1 DATAFILE '//./FLOW_1.dbf'..
and i found the syntax for create tablespace was wrong.
To create a tablespace in RAC with RAW device environment under windows.
it should have forward black slash instead of backward slash "/" without .dbf extension.
so, I changed the syntax i was able to create tablespace through sqlplus.
When APEX tool try to create this tablespace it throws this error..
Old: CREATE TABLESPACE FLOW_1 DATAFILE
'\\.\FLOW_1.dbf' SIZE 10304 K REUSE AUTOEXTEND OFF
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
error : ORA-01119: error in creating database file '\\.\FLOW_1.dbf'
New:
CREATE TABLESPACE FLOW_1 DATAFILE
'\\.\FLOW_1' SIZE 10304 K REUSE AUTOEXTEND OFF
EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL AUTOALLOCATE SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
Tablespace created.
Is it a bug in APEX 3.0.1.??
Is anyone installed APEX in RAC ??
James

Hi,
One observation, Apex is switching the Session ID after one got killed ? I was working on Apex page with browse Item to test open cursor count,
after killing the SID (227) on which the open cursor count was getting increase, it APEX automatically switches to new SID(149) for that session.
Now the problem is even if I have two SID's and one hits the maximum open cursor count, It is not switching to other SID instead the whole application becomes unavailable.
STATNAME SID VALUE USER
opened cursors current 20 14 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 149 74 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 194 71 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 211 5 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 227 325 APEX_PUBLIC_USER Killed
opened cursors current 244 15 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 20 14 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 149 76 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 194 71 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 211 5 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
opened cursors current 244 15 APEX_PUBLIC_USER
Please kindly help in this.
Thanks in Advance
Thanks & Regards
Sanjay
Edited by: user11204334 on Dec 8, 2010 1:02 AM

Raw device in ASM

Hi,
I am assigning raw devices to ASM on IBM-AIX 5.2. But the devices are not visible in ASM. Please somebody help me how to identify the disks in ASM or from AIX to check whether the disks are accessiable. I am able to ls -lrt and find the disk. but not able to identify the raw disk size
Thanks for your help

In some OSs raw devices are only visible to root unless the permissions are explicitly reset.
Have you read the appropriate section in the RAC install guide for AIX? (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b14201/storage.htm#BABHCGIJ)

How can I copy datafile (from one Raw device) to another Raw device ???

can anybody tell me how do i copy/move one datafile from one raw device to another raw device.... ?
I am having AIX 5.3 with SAN.
Pls. help me...
regards,
Star Nirav

Hello Hans,
Currently I am using via RMAN... Want to know which one help me....? Is there any size limitation via dd command ? Can I use iocopy instead of dd in AIX ?
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