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drop offline chunk

Posted in 2001

Topics: Storage & Space Management, Error Codes & Troubleshooting, Server Administration

hanna_shaw@my-deja.com — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi, A chunk of a dbspace in my instance is down for hardware reason. There is no mirror on it. I want to drop it from the dbspace. When I ran 'onspaces -d ...' I got the following error message: Chunk not dropped. ISAM error: Primary and Mirror chunks are bad And the bad chunk is still there. Could anyone please let me know how to do with it? Thanks. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

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Norman Erickson Lugtu — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

You can only drop an empty chunk if it is online. You need to call Informix technical support and tell them to make it online so that you can drop the chunk. All they have to do is to run oncheck -S Erickson In article <93daum$9rk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, hanna_shaw@my-deja.com wrote: > Hi, > > A chunk of a dbspace in my instance is down for hardware reason. There > is no mirror on it. I want to drop it from the dbspace. When I > ran 'onspaces -d ...' I got the following error message: > > Chunk not dropped. > ISAM error: Primary and Mirror chunks are bad> > And the bad chunk is still there. Could anyone please let me know how > to do with it? Thanks. > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/ > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

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hanna_shaw@my-deja.com — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Thank you very much, Norman. I just called Informix technical support. Now it's online. They said they changed something in the reserved pages to mark it online and empty. They said I don't need to drop it now. Btw, what does 'oncheck -S' do? Can I run it myself? Thanks again In article <93kmro$9me$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Norman Erickson Lugtu <elugtu@my-deja.com> wrote: > You can only drop an empty chunk if it is online. You need to call > Informix technical support and tell them to make it online so that you > can drop the chunk. All they have to do is to run oncheck -S > > Erickson > > In article <93daum$9rk$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, > hanna_shaw@my-deja.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A chunk of a dbspace in my instance is down for hardware reason. There > > is no mirror on it. I want to drop it from the dbspace. When I > > ran 'onspaces -d ...' I got the following error message: > > > > Chunk not dropped. > > ISAM error: Primary and Mirror chunks are bad> > > > And the bad chunk is still there. Could anyone please let me know how > > to do with it? Thanks. > > > > Sent via Deja.com > > http://www.deja.com/ > > > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/ > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

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Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

You cannot do it. Replace the chunk either by replacing the disk or by linking another to the same path or link and restore the entire dbspace from backup. There is no way to drop a chunk that has data in it even if it were NOT offline. Art S. Kagel hanna_shaw@my-deja.com wrote: > > Hi, > > A chunk of a dbspace in my instance is down for hardware reason. There > is no mirror on it. I want to drop it from the dbspace. When I > ran 'onspaces -d ...' I got the following error message: > > Chunk not dropped. > ISAM error: Primary and Mirror chunks are bad> > And the bad chunk is still there. Could anyone please let me know how > to do with it? Thanks. > > Sent via Deja.com > http://www.deja.com/

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