how do you rename a chunk?

When setting up our database, we used the raw device names as the names for the various chunks (and their mirrors) that we added. (i.e. /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 [solaris 2.6]). My question: Short of unloading the database and reloading it, is there anyway to rename the chunks? i.e. ln -s /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 /dev/rdsk/chunk0 restart server pointing to /dev/rdsk/[chunk|mirror]* and not the literal devices Server Version: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 Thanks! Doug Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Hi , I am afraid you cannot do that short of , as you suggested, unloading the data and then creating symbolic links and recreating the instance. Pankaj wrlopt@my-deja.com wrote in message <8kj13q$c48$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >When setting up our database, we used the raw device names as >the names for the various chunks (and their mirrors) that >we added. (i.e. /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 [solaris 2.6]). > >My question: Short of unloading the database and reloading it, >is there anyway to rename the chunks? >i.e. ln -s /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 /dev/rdsk/chunk0 > restart server pointing to /dev/rdsk/[chunk|mirror]* and > not the literal devices > >Server Version: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 > >Thanks! >Doug > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy.

Officially ;-) there is no way to rename a chunk beyond dropping it and readding it using a link. That of course means unloading and reloading the data stored there. Unofficially it can be done it's just not worth the effort. BTW DO NOT put the links in /dev because some overzealous sysadmin will come along and say: "Hey who put these links here? Well, we're not using them to mount any filesystems, I'll just clean up a bit...". Put the links in a directory under the user informix login, say ~informix/disks, and use that path in onspaces/onmonitor: onspaces -c -d dbs2 -p /home/informix/disks/chunk2 -o 0 -s 2096640 \\ -m /home/informix/disks/mirror2 0 MUCH safer! Art S. Kagel wrlopt@my-deja.com wrote: > > When setting up our database, we used the raw device names as > the names for the various chunks (and their mirrors) that > we added. (i.e. /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 [solaris 2.6]). > > My question: Short of unloading the database and reloading it, > is there anyway to rename the chunks? > i.e. ln -s /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s4 /dev/rdsk/chunk0 > restart server pointing to /dev/rdsk/[chunk|mirror]* and > not the literal devices > > Server Version: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC5 > > Thanks! > Doug > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.