Re: acfs.archive folders on Exadata and/or RAC ?

Hi Chris,
i am ExaCC (gen 1) as well and have had the same exact problem. I have deleted those archive files without issue. I do not know their exact purpose, but when I saw the really old dates I decided to give it a shot by starting with the oldest. After no adverse effects I started deleting more of them.

I heard that /u01 can be resized via a SR, but I have not tried that yet.

thanks,
Anthony

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:18 AM Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> So we're on Exadata Cloud at Customer and we find out that /u01 is not
> resizeable.
> Not only that, it's mostly a manual process to cleanup files.
>
> In /u01 on Exadata C_at_C we have these two large directories that are
> growing.
>
> Overview:
> Size:
> /dev/mapper/VGExaDb-LVDbOra1 20G 15G 4.1G 79% / u01
>
> Usage:
> :/u01/app/grid
> -------------------/diag (5.8G)
> -------------------/crsdata (5.6G)
>
> Under crsdata/<node name> we have a several of these acfs.archive
> folders. Most of which are old.
>
> Does anyone know what these acfs.archive folders are ? And can they be
> safely removed if they are not in use?
>
> MB Directory
> ----- -------------------------------------
> 1385 ./acfs.archive.200407002506
> 1083 ./acfs
> 994 ./acfs.archive.190219203711
> 987 ./acfs.archive.190624215336
> 741 ./acfs.archive.181111214215
> 126 ./acfs.archive.181116165415
> 108 ./acfs.archive.190626101824
> ...
> ...
>
> Some of these have really old dates:
>
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Oct 17 2018 acfs.archive.181017203630
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Oct 17 2018 acfs.archive.181017223228
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Oct 17 2018 acfs.archive.181017223727
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Oct 17 2018 acfs.archive.181019232838
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Nov 10 2018 acfs.archive.181111214215
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Nov 11 2018 acfs.archive.181111220837
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Nov 15 2018 acfs.archive.181116165415
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Nov 16 2018 acfs.archive.181116172616
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Feb 19 2019 acfs.archive.190219154236
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Feb 19 2019 acfs.archive.190219160403
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Jan 16 2019 acfs.archive.190219203711
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Mar 13 2019 acfs.archive.190624215336
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Jun 25 2019 acfs.archive.190626101824
> drwxrwxr-x 2 grid oinstall 4096 Jun 6 22:39 acfs.archive.200407002506
>
>
>

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