Adding a new vote disk

Adding a new vote disk

As root

cd /u01/crs/oracle/product/10.2.0/crs/bin

1. see where your voting disks currently are (run on one node)

./crsctl query css votedisk

2. shut down the clusterware on every node

./crsctl stop crs

3. add the new voting disk (run on one node)

./crsctl add css votedisk /u01/rac4prd_nfs_votedisk_p3/nfs_votedisk_3 -force

4. delete the old on you don’t want (run on one node)

./crsctl delete css votedisk /dev/p3_votedisk_3 -force

5. check what’s there (run on one node)

./crsctl query css votedisk

5.1 Change permissions on new votedisk as per Unix standards


6. bring everything back up on every node

./crsctl start crs



Trace srvctl command

To trace the srvctl command and get the commands that are being run in the background, and any errors then;

$> export SRVM_TRACE=TRUE

$> srvctl start database -d DB