{"id":1903,"date":"2012-02-21T08:41:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T13:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2012-03-01T08:38:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:38:18","slug":"change-the-mount-point-for-an-acfs-filesystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/21\/change-the-mount-point-for-an-acfs-filesystem\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the mount point for an ACFS filesystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the mount point for an ACFS filesystem is not a straightforward process, and is not a well documented process.  We found ourselves in this position after we misspelled the goldengate directory we wanted to use for the binaries and trail files in a RAC.<\/p>\n<p>We erroneously spelled it goldendate.  We tried to use asmcmd volset which changed it temporarily, but our changes were lost after a reboot.  After fishing around for several hours, we found what is below, and thought it may be useful to someone else.<\/p>\n<p>You need to use the acfsutil executable, which was nowhere to be found other than under an install directory.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"text\">\r\nexpressdb1:oracle:ecomm1:\/u01\/app\/11.2.0# .\/grid\/install\/usm\/cmds\/bin\/acfsutil registry -l\r\nDevice : \/dev\/asm\/volume1-104 : Mount Point : \/u01\/app\/oracle\/acfsdata\/goldendate : Options : none : Nodes : all : Disk Group : DATA : Volume : VOLUME1\r\nexpressdb1:oracle:ecomm1:\/u01\/app\/11.2.0# .\/grid\/install\/usm\/cmds\/bin\/acfsutil registry -d \/dev\/asm\/volume1-104\r\nacfsutil registry: successfully removed ACFS volume \/dev\/asm\/volume1-104 from Oracle Registry\r\nexpressdb1:oracle:ecomm1:\/u01\/app\/11.2.0# .\/grid\/install\/usm\/cmds\/bin\/acfsutil registry -a \/dev\/asm\/volume1-104 \/u01\/app\/oracle\/acfsdata\/goldengate\/\r\nacfsutil registry: mount point \/u01\/app\/oracle\/acfsdata\/goldengate successfully added to Oracle Registry\r\nexpressdb1:oracle:ecomm1:\/u01\/app\/11.2.0#\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You can then either:<\/p>\n<p>restart each node, which will result in ACFS filesystem being mounted on the new location found in the cluster registry<\/p>\n<p>-or-<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"text\">\r\numount the_current_location\r\nmount -t acfs \/dev\/asm\/volume-<###> \/new_location\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing the mount point for an ACFS filesystem is not a straightforward process, and is not a well documented process. We found ourselves in this position after we misspelled the goldengate directory we wanted to use for the binaries and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/21\/change-the-mount-point-for-an-acfs-filesystem\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/appcrawler.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}