Hello Julio, There is always the "udev" option for device management. This means more work at the sysadmins end. -Rajeev On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:35 AM, QuijadaReina, Julio C < QuijadJC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Alan, > What you say is interesting. We are a RAC shop and I have always used > oracleasm tools to create/delete ASM disks for SAN shared storage before or > after I use them for an ASM instance. Maybe it's just my ignorance, but is > there another way to do that without oracleasm? > >