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DBspaces and IECC

Posted in 2000

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Storage & Space Management

J. Boyle — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I have installed IECC on an NT4 machine with a 36 gig hard drive. I have created a dbspace on the D drive that is currently 7Gig. The D drive has 24 gig of free space, but Informix is not seeing it. When I try to add space to the dbspace it tells me that there is no free space. NT can see and write to the space - why isn't Informix seeing it. Any ideas? Thanks for any thoughts!

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Ray Canuel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

A dbspace is a logical grouping of chunks. Chunks are physical blocks of storage. Chunks are limited to 2GB. Since you have 7GB already allocated, you need to create 14 2GB chunks and one 1GB chunk for your D drive. IECC has been phased out for some time, Informix Server Administrator (ISA) is free and downloadable from intraware. Its all web based and very lite/easy to install. An alternative to using IECC or ISA is simply the old fashioned onspaces command. Start-->Programs-->Informix-->INFORMIXSERV Dos Prompt. From there you need to create some file names with your favorite editor on NT. These will be your chunk names. Run onspaces which will allocate the file size specified. Your command will look something like this: onspaces -a dbspacename -p "d:\\chunks\\dbspacename.001" -o 0 -s2147483644 onspaces -a dbspacename -p "d:\\chunks\\dbspacename.002" -o 0 -s2147483644 onspaces -a dbspacename -p "d:\\chunks\\dbspacename.003" -o 0 -s2147483644 ..... onspaces -a dbspacename -p "d:\\chunks\\dbspacename.014" -o 0 -s2147483644 onspaces -a dbspacename -p "d:\\chunks\\dbspacename.015" -o 0 -s1073741824 Run onspaces <return> first and you will see some good usage. Go with the onspaces approach. Then try to get a hold of ISA from intraware. Ray "J. Boyle" wrote: > > I have installed IECC on an NT4 machine with a 36 gig hard drive. I have > created a dbspace on the D drive that is currently 7Gig. The D drive has 24 > gig of free space, but Informix is not seeing it. When I try to add space > to the dbspace it tells me that there is no free space. > > NT can see and write to the space - why isn't Informix seeing it. Any > ideas? > > Thanks for any thoughts!

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