Fake Informix Server

Hello, I was wondering if anyone ran into this condition! I'm running Informix on Linux (Red Hat) OS. The boot sector and Informix Server resided on one disk and the database/dbspaces resides on another. We ran into some issues with the disk with the boot up files, hence we are going to swap it with another; this also means a new install of the Informix Server. I was wondering if there was a way to fake the new informix server to point to the databases/dbspaces that already exist on the other drive without having to create new databases by importing (dbimport) from an export file. Thank you for your help. Girish.

"oracle, old sherwoodian" <rana_gman@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:d8fce806-ff18-451f-9450-93a75b415f94@a39g2000yqc.googlegroups.com... > Hello, I was wondering if anyone ran into this condition! > I'm running Informix on Linux (Red Hat) OS. The boot sector and > Informix Server resided on one disk and the database/dbspaces resides > on another. We ran into some issues with the disk with the boot up > files, hence we are going to swap it with another; this also means a > new install of the Informix Server. > I was wondering if there was a way to fake the new informix server to > point to the databases/dbspaces that already exist on the other drive > without having to create new databases by importing (dbimport) from an > export file. > > Thank you for your help. > Girish Of course. At Informix start-up time Informix has no idea where any of its chunks are. So it opens the first chunk of the root dbspace, whose address it gets from ROOTPATH in the $ONCONFIG, and the roo dbspace contains all the info about the other chunks. Provided then you get the ROOTPATH, ROOTSIZE and a few other things right in the $ONCONFIG under your new installation, you should be able to address the entire database server. .