Greetings, I hope this isn't a naïve question but anyway, I am using ASM on a two node RAC cluster, Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 SE on Red Hat EL4. The raw devices look like this... crw-rw---- 1 root dba 162, 1 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw1 crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 10 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw10 crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 11 May 7 10:36 /dev/raw/raw11 crw-rw---- 1 root dba 162, 2 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw2 crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 3 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw3 crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 5 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw5 crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 6 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw6 crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 7 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw7 crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 8 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw8 crw-rw---- 1 oracle dba 162, 9 May 6 14:45 /dev/raw/raw9 I know which are used for the CRS and voting disks but I am trying to determine which of the others make up the ASM disk groups and I can't find information on how to do that. The disk groups have been provisioned using asmlib. Querying v$asm_disk returns the following... SQL> select group_number,name,substr(path,1,30) from v$asm_disk; GROUP_NUMBER NAME SUBSTR(PATH,1,30) ------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ 0 /dev/raw/raw10 0 /dev/raw/raw9 0 /dev/raw/raw8 0 /dev/raw/raw7 0 /dev/raw/raw6 0 /dev/raw/raw5 0 /dev/raw/raw3 0 /dev/raw/raw11 0 /dev/raw/raw1 0 /dev/raw/raw2 1 VOL1 ORCL:VOL1 1 VOL2 ORCL:VOL2 2 VOL3 ORCL:VOL3 For example which of the raw devices are mapped to VOL1? I suspect I am not understanding something or else just have not found the appropriate view to query but if someone can help me out I would be most appreciative. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l