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cannot use vgdisplay to check free space in a volume group

Hi, Experts:

I have an old linux with a mixmized out disk. I want to expand the disks but got the following error. Could someone help me resolve this error?

Thanks.

[jasony@lom-oraprd-02 jasony]$ su -
Password:
[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]# vgdisplay
vgdisplay -- ERROR: "/etc/lvmtab" doesn't exist or is unreadable; you may need to run vgscan

[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]# cat /etc/*-release
LSB_VERSION="1.3"
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 6)
[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]# vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group

[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]#

Jason Yu

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[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]# vgdisplay
vgdisplay -- no volume groups found

[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]# lvdisplay
lvdisplay -- please enter a logical volume path

[root@lom-oraprd-02 root]#

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[root@lom-oraprd-01 root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 93G 64G 25G 73% /
/dev/sda1 99M 15M 79M 16% /boot
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 10G 76M 10G 1% /u02/oradata/crsdata
[root@lom-oraprd-01 root]#

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I have received this email prompting me that the +DATA01 tablespace file is full. Is there a way I can expand this table space file.

it is oracle 10 g database.

TABLESPACE_NAME       FILE_NAME                                                     ALLOCATED_MB     FREE_MB   PCNT_USED
--------------------  ------------------------------------------------------------  ------------  ----------  ----------
SYSAUX                +DATA01/solprd/datafile/sysaux.265.798065143                           950      61.125        93.6
SYSAUX                +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/sysaux.626.845462289                           110          16        85.5                ---------this one
SYSTEM                +DATA01/solprd/datafile/system.280.798065139                           460      8.3125        98.2    -------This one
SYSTEM                +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/system.273.889087843                           200    199.9375           0
TESUITE_PROD          +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tesuite_prod.271.800136785                    2048    216.9375        89.4
TESUITE_PROD          +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tesuite_prod.274.800136811                    2048    110.9375        94.6   -------This one
TESUITE_PROD          +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tesuite_prod.276.800136805                    2048    308.0625          85
TESUITE_PROD          +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tesuite_prod.277.800136799                    2048    277.9375        86.4
TESUITE_PROD          +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tesuite_prod.278.800136793                    2048    252.9375        87.6
TINSIGHT              +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tinsight.270.798122171                         200       81.75        59.1
TSURVEYREPORTRESULTS  +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyreportresults.293.800136717            1100       22.25          98   -------This one
TSURVEYREPORTRESULTS  +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyreportresults.465.878901889             200    150.9375        24.5
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.257.800137025               4096       1.375         100
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.258.800137011               4096      3.9375        99.9
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.259.825662971               4096           2         100     --------------this one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.273.800136933               4096      5.9375        99.9  -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.282.800137065               4096      3.9375        99.9  -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.283.800137051               4096      3.9375        99.9   -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.285.800137039               4096      3.9375        99.9  -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.288.800136999               4096      3.9375        99.9   -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.289.800136985               4096      5.9375        99.9  -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.290.800136973               4096       .9375         100       -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.291.800136959               4096           5        99.9  -------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +DATA01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.292.800136947               4096      6.0625        99.9-------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.491.885014557               1024      6.9375        99.3-------This one
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.659.876681481               4096   1449.9375        64.6
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.665.889089417               1024    399.9375        60.9
TSURVEYREPOSITORY     +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/tsurveyrepository.892.845849731               8192     23.9375        99.7-------This one
UNDOTBS1              +DATA01/solprd/datafile/undotbs1.281.798065143                        2730      2.8125        99.9-------This one
UNDOTBS1              +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/undotbs1.902.843765309                         500     435.875        12.8
UNDOTBS2              +DATA01/solprd/datafile/undotbs2.287.798065145                        2660   2633.8125           1
UNDOTBS3              +RCOV01/solprd/datafile/undotbs3.527.843766823                        1024         923         9.9
USERS                 +DATA01/solprd/datafile/users.286.798065147                           1024   1023.9375           0

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Jason Yu

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Thank you, all these posts are helpful for me. I appreciate.

I will open another post in Oracle database field and learn the steps to change the "autoextend" parameter.

Thanks.