Recently I got into problem when there was on space left on dbspace on one of our Informix database. It took me nearly 2 hours of Googling to figure out how to add CHUNK to existing dbspace.
I thinks it would be better to blog it, this might help some other folks or might I need to use it some day when the newly added CHUNK also get full :)
For my setup I do not have the additional hard drive and have a plenty of free space on Unix partition. Therefore I used the unix file as new Chunk.
'onmonitor', oncheck -pe, onstat -d commands can be used to view the status of dbspaces.
Here are the steps to add chunk.
1. First create a chunk file in Unix filesystem and set the permission so that informix user/group have the read/write permission on the file.
touch /export/home/dbspace/billdb_dg/lv_recorddbs11
chmod 660 /export/home/dbspace/billdb_dg/lv_recorddbs11
Note: I run the above commands with 'informix' user or the owner of informix db.
The following example adds a 2GB chunk to recordbs. An offset of 200 kilobytes is specified.
onspaces -a recorddbs -p /export/home/dbspace/billdb_dg/lv_recorddbs11 -o 200 -s 2093150
Here -s 2093150 is specified in KB
The newly added chunk is available immediately.
After you create the chunk, you must perform a level-0 backup of the root dbspace and the dbspace that contains the chunk.
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