Owner's Manual

30 Deployment Guide
6 Ty p e cat /proc/partitions to verify the new partition.
If you do not observe the new partition, type:
sfdisk -R /dev/sdb
sfdisk -R /dev/sdc
7 Ty p e :
mke2fs -j /dev/sdb1
mke2fs -j /dev/sdc1
8 Modify the /etc/fstab file by adding an entry for the newly created file system.
9 Ty p e :
mount /dev/sdb1 /opt/oracle/oradata
mount /dev/sdc1 /opt/oracle/recovery
10 Ty p e :
chown oracle.dba oradata recovery
Configuring Database Storage Using Oracle ASM
To configure your storage system using ASM, perform the following steps:
The following example assumes that you have two storage devices (sdb and sdc) available to create a
disk group for the database files, and a disk group to be used for flash back recovery and archive log files,
respectively.
1
Log in as root .
2 Type the following commands to change the names of the raw character devices to make them
identifiable:
mv /dev/raw/raw1 /dev/raw/ASM1
mv /dev/raw/raw2 /dev/raw/ASM2
chown oracle.dba /dev/raw/ASM1
chown oracle.dba /dev/raw/ASM2
3 Ty p e fdisk /dev/sdb to create a primary partition for the entire device.
4 Ty p e fdisk /dev/sdc to create a primary partition for the entire device.
5 Edit the /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file and add the following lines:
/dev/raw/ASM1 /dev/sdb1
/dev/raw/ASM2 /dev/sdc1
6 Ty p e service rawdevices restart to restart the Raw Devices Service.