Re: Moving ROOTDBSPACE travails

Posted in 1997

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:06:09 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Cosmo Lee wrote: > > Helloooo, nobody out there has ever tried moving a root dbspace??? My > newserver _must_ be dropping postings, cuz I _can't_ believe nobody here > has done this. Or are you guys just holding out on me?! ;-) > > Cosmo Lee wrote: > > > I'm trying to physically move a client's rootdbs from a Unix file > > based > > dbs to a raw device. Just shut the engine down, dd the cooked file into the raw file, remove the cooked file and relink the original filename to the raw file. This seems easier to me. For best results use dd with bs=2k. Sorry I missed your original posting. Art S. Kagel