Re: Root DBspace confusion

Michael Hoffman wrote: > > Hi all, > > A bit of confusion upon reading the Administrator's Guide prior to > installing IDS 9.2. (After reading the following I went back to the 7.3 > manual and found the same passage) > > In Chapter 14 (Data Storage): > If you plan to move the physical and logical logs, the initial > configuration for the root dbspace might differ markedly from > the final configuration. You can resize the root dbspace after > you remove the physical and logical logs. However, the root > dbspace must be large enough for the minimum size configuration > during disk initialization. > > (on page 14-46 in 9.2, 14-32 in 7.3) > > Am I mistaken, or is this totally wrong? Doesn't resizing the root dbspace > entail reinitializing the Database, thus wiping out all data (logspaces > included)? I figure you can *add* to the root dbspace easily enough, but > the context of this passage (and my necessity, thus my curiousity) relates > to *shrinking* the root dbspace size. Mmmm, I would say you have a valid point there. It does look like it's implying that you can reduce the size after you move your logs out. As you rightly state, you cannot resize the 1st chunk of the rootdbs. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+