Do not skip this step. Skipping this step results in unused space that can no longer
be reclaimed by
reclaimdisks.sh
.
For example:
# /opt/oracle.SupportTools/reclaimdisks.sh -free -reclaim
Model is ORACLE SERVER X5-2
Number of LSI controllers: 1
Physical disks found: 4 (252:0 252:1 252:2 252:3)
Logical drives found: 1
Linux logical drive: 0
RAID Level for the Linux logical drive: 5
Physical disks in the Linux logical drive: 4 (252:0 252:1 252:2 252:3)
Dedicated Hot Spares for the Linux logical drive: 0
Global Hot Spares: 0
[INFO ] Check for DOM0 system disk
[INFO ] Check for DOM0 with inactive Linux system disk
[INFO ] Valid DOM0 with inactive Linux system disk is detected
[INFO ] Number of partitions on the system device /dev/sda: 4
[INFO ] Higher partition number on the system device /dev/sda: 4
[INFO ] Last sector on the system device /dev/sda: 3509759999
[INFO ] End sector of the last partition on the system device /dev/sda:
3509759000
[INFO ] Unmount /EXAVMIMAGES from ocfs2 partition on /dev/sda3
[INFO ] Mount ocfs2 partition /dev/sda3 to /EXAVMIMAGES
[INFO ] Remove inactive system logical volume /dev/VGExaDb/LVDbSys1
[INFO ] Remove logical volume /dev/VGExaDbOra/LVDbOra1
[INFO ] Remove volume group VGExaDbOra
[INFO ] Remove physical volume /dev/sda4
[INFO ] Remove partition /dev/sda4
[INFO ] Re-calculate end sector of the last partition after removing of /dev/
sda4 partition
[INFO ] End sector of the last partition on the system device /dev/sda:
3300035608
[INFO ] Check for existing first boot system image /EXAVMIMAGES/
System.first.boot.12.1.2.1.0.141205.2.img
[INFO ] Saving /EXAVMIMAGES/System.first.boot.12.1.2.1.0.141205.2.img
in /var/log/exadatatmp ...
[INFO ] First boot system image saved in /var/log/exadatatmp/
System.first.boot.12.1.2.1.0.141205.2.img
[INFO ] Unmount /EXAVMIMAGES from /dev/sda3
[INFO ] Remove partition /dev/sda3
[INFO ] Re-calculate end sector of the last partition after removing of /dev/
sda3 partition
[INFO ] End sector of the last partition on the system device /dev/sda:
240132159
[INFO ] Create primary ocfs2 partition 3 using 240132160 3509758999
[INFO ] Create ocfs2 partition on /dev/sda3
[INFO ] Mount ocfs2 partition on /dev/sda3 to /EXAVMIMAGES
[INFO ] Restoring /var/log/exadatatmp/System.first.boot.
12.1.2.1.0.141205.2.img into /EXAVMIMAGES ...
[INFO ] Logical volume LVDbSys2 exists in volume group VGExaDb
[INFO ] Grub version in /boot/grub/grub.stage.version: 0.97-81.0.1.el6
[INFO ] Grub rpm version: 0.97-13.10.0.1.el5
[INFO ] Copying /usr/share/grub/x86_64-redhat/* to /boot/grub ...
[INFO ] Create filesystem on device /dev/sda1
[INFO ] Tune filesystem on device /dev/sda1
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
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