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    Dragos Vilcu
    datafile location on a "DB on VM"Answered
    Topic posted July 29, 2019 by Dragos VilcuRed Ribbon: 250+ Points, tagged DBaaS, DBCS 
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    Title:
    datafile location on a "DB on VM"
    Summary:
    datafile location on a "DB on VM"
    Content:

    Hello,

    I want to create a new tablespaces on a DB on VM, but I don't know where is the location for the datafiles.

    if I query DBA_data_files I got some locations like +DATA/DCSDB03_IAD1X7/8DB63059418C5423E05373107D64E799/DATAFILE/system.271.1013680223   but  on operating system itself, I wasn't able to find the "DATAFILE" directory.

    Thank you

     

     

     

     

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    Simon Law

    This is because the storage for the Database is using Automatic Storage Management (ASM), so you will not see the OS file system. 

    -Simon  

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    • Simon Law

      This is because the storage for the Database is using Automatic Storage Management (ASM), so you will not see the OS file system. 

      -Simon  

    • enrique ortiz

      Hi 

      the storage for the database is in ASM , these disk are not visible to the operating system but managed by oracle 

      these disks are managed by oracle , it only has a header and has no operating system formatting at all , if you try to access write or mount at the operating system you probably delete the database 

      the disk are in the /dev directory and controlled by the asmcmd utility , there are commands to list the disk and the size of the data, for example

      - log as opc

      - change to user grid ( sudo su - grid ) 

      - asmcmd lsdks

      [grid@********** dev]$ asmcmd lsdsk 
      Path
      /dev/DATADISK10
      /dev/DATADISK11
      /dev/DATADISK12
      /dev/DATADISK9
      /dev/RECODISK10
      /dev/RECODISK11
      /dev/RECODISK12
      /dev/RECODISK9

      [grid@********* dev]$ asmcmd lsdg 
      State            Type    Rebal  Sector  Logical_Sector  Block       AU      Total_MB  Free_MB  Req_mir_free_MB  Usable_file_MB  Offline_disks  Voting_files  Name
      MOUNTED  EXTERN  N         512             512        4096  4194304   4194304  2030272             0                      2030272              0             Y  DATA/
      MOUNTED  EXTERN  N         512             512       4096  4194304    839680   624264                0                        624264              0             N  RECO/

      the DATA is the data disk and the RECO is the recovery disk , used for the redos and archivers , so i have 4TB Data and  free 2Tb ( 2030272) 

       

     

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