VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 3, Using VERITAS Quick I/O

Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am Preallocating Space for Quick I/O Files Using the setext Command

Example

To access the mount point /db01, create a datafile, preallocate the space, and change the

permissions:

# cd /db01

# touch .dbfile

# /opt/VRTS/bin/setext -r 100M -f noreserve -f chgsize .dbfile

# ln -s .dbfile::cdev:vxfs: dbfile

# chown oracle .dbfile

# chgrp dba .dbfile

# chmod 660 .dbfile