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Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace

Posted By: Marcus Haarmann
Date: Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 4:19 a.m.

In Response To: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace (PUSHPA KUMARA)

Hu, really old version.

That one can only handle 2GB chunks.
The size parameter should work (maximum would be 2097152).
Check if you have enough space on the device (with dd maybe),
I would suspect a partitioning problem.

dd if=/dev/zero of=/ dblinks/dbsreg59 bs=1024 count= 2096128
(should run through, not break with an error, like end of medium reached or similar)

(We recently replaced such an old version with a Linux based 11.70 Innovator Edition, which now runs
on virtualized hardware and has the same functionality as before, addressed over TCP from a very old SCO based legacy system.
Definitely, you should consider upgrading since you will get no support in case you run into any problem.
We upgraded only the IDS and all the old apps were usable without change, you should give it a try
maybe with a 11.70 Innovator edition, normally you would not touch the memory/processor restriction
compared to such an old system and gain a performance improvement, together with the ability to backup in
files instead of tapes (which was one of the reasons we replaced the old system).
Of course, there is no direct upgrade path, so we did a dbexport/dbimport which was really fast (estimate data size was 25GB).
There is one drawback - you cannot use the 12.x version of Innovator, looking on the amount of data you handle,
because there is a restriction. But there maybe the choice to use the express edition or workgroup edition instead, in case nobody would
be interested to invest a lot of money to licence costs. It is more expensive to run into a non-functional system because
of failing old hardware)

Hope this helps,

Marcus Haarmann

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----

Von: "PUSHPA KUMARA" <pushpa@cybersoft.lk>
An: ids@iiug.org
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Juni 2016 09:18:24
Betreff: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace [37323]

Hi,

i tried to add new chunk to database but it's failed with error. chunk size is
2GB and this dbspace has 55 chunks exist.

OS version: AIX 5.3
informix version: IDS 7.31

in disk level and VG level has enough space.

error:
$ onspaces -a regdbs -p /dblinks/dbsreg59 -o 0 -s 2096128
Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace.
ISAM error: no free disk space

what would be the case for this issue ? any one has idea about this.

Thanks
Pushpa

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Messages In This Thread

• Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
  PUSHPA KUMARA -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 3:18 a.m.
  • Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
    Marcus Haarmann -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 4:19 a.m.
    • Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
      Andreas Legner -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 4:39 a.m.
      • Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
        PUSHPA KUMARA -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 5:57 a.m.
        • Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
          Keith Simmons -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 6:09 a.m.
          • Re: Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace
            Andreas Legner -- Wednesday, 29 June 2016, at 7:12 a.m.

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