Re: shrink a raw veritas volume (with an oracle datafile on it naturally)

I'll bite.

Apparently I tried this on Veritas volume manager
about 4 years ago on an index tablespace on a raw
Veritas volume.  While it seemed to work, I checked
with an experienced sys admin and he immediately tried
to strangle me over the phone.  He said that this is
definitely not supported.  A raw volume cannot be
resized.  The proper way to do so was to drop the
volume itself and recreate it.

He asked me to drop the index and re-boot. 
Fortunately things came up clean.  I was able to drop
the volume and rebuild a new volume.

But in short, what I've been told is that this is not
a supported operation.

--
mohammed

--- Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Assuming you've got a (say) 4g datafile on a 4g raw
> veritas volume,
> then after you've shrunk the datafile to (say) 3g,
> then is there
> anything that prohibits you from shrinking the
> veritas volume back
> down to 3g (plus a little bit) as well ?
> 
> I just got asked and replied "yes", but I've just
> done a quick
> double-check of the docs.
> 
> Whilst the veritas docs wax lyrical about how cool
> they're product is
> because they can shrink volumes with file systems on
> it etc etc,
> there's nothing that specifically says you can (or
> are allowed to) do
> it with a raw volume (that has a datafile on it).
> 
> Any takers ?
> --=20
> Connor McDonald
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