Re: oninit -i refuses to work

Oninit -i initializes the database engine. Hence, any additional dbspaces you created, or changes you made, as in moving logical logs or physical logs will be retracted. Chances are that you initialized the database, moved and add additional logical logs, as well as moving and increasing the size of the physical log. To run oninit -i, change the number of logical logs to 6 (to make sure you have enough room for sysmasters), and reduce the size of the physical log. By the way, if all you want to do is drop a database, why not just drop it via SQL? Mark @augsburg.net wrote in article <4uohat$qab@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>... > We had an existing database and wanted to drop it. > We shut down the working database and took it offline. > > We just tried oninit -i and got the response > > oninit: Not enough room for ROOT dbspace. > Fatal error initializing shared memory.> > Why? And how can we do oninit -i? > > Martin Haltmayer >