Make ORACLE ACFS quick actions

Summary

This is a quick tutorial to make an ACFS disk. ACFS is a file system developed by ORACLE. ACFS is managed by ASM which can be used to store database datafile, Oracle Database Software Home, etc.

This passage is based on Oracle 12.2.0.1 & 18.1.1.

Create volume via ASMCMD

Run ASMCMD located in $GI_HOME/bin/asmcmd, then run the following command to create a volume for ACFS on certain Disk Group.

ASMCMD > volcreate -G <DG_NAME> -s <SIZE_OF_VOLUME> <VOLUME_NAME>

• <DG_NAME>: The Disk Group that you want to put your volume on.
• <SIZE_OF_VOLUME>: Size of volume, unit G stands for GigaByte. Example: 10G.
• <VOLUME_NAME>: The name of the volume.

After have created the volume, you can use following command to check volume information.

ASMCMD > volinfo -G <DG_NAME> <VOLUME_NAME>

Also, you can check volume device via SQL*Plus. Run the following command:

SQL> SELECT volume_name, volume_device FROM V$ASM_VOLUME WHERE volume_name = '<VOLUME_NAME';

Format volume with ACFS

Use following command to format volume with ACFS.

$ /sbin/mkfs -t acfs /dev/asm/<VOLUME_NAME>-<VOLUME_DEVICE>

When your volume name is volume1, the device name may be volume1-123. <VOLUME_DEVICE> is always an integer, but may be various.

Register with acfsutil

This is optional and it’s not available for Oracle Restart.

Run the following command to rigister the file system.

$ /sbin/acfsutil registry -a /dev/asm/<VOLUME_NAME>-<VOLUME_DEVICE> <MOUNT_POINT>

• <MOUNT_POINT> is the mount point of your ACFS.

Mount ACFS

Run the following command as root user to mount new created ACFS.

# /bin/mount -t acfs /dev/asm/<VOLUME_NAME>-<VOLUME_DEVICE> <MOUNT_POINT>

Others

After creating your ACFS disk, you can try to put some files to verify the availability.