Is there any trick to Resize LVM online that raw by UDEV rule without filesystem?

Question

Here is the Logic Volume for example:

   lvcreate   -L2G -n Lv_OraD1 vg_db
   lvcreate -L180G -n Lv_OraD2 vg_db

   lvdisplay /dev/mapper/Lv_OraD*

UDEV rule to raw the LV:

   vi /etc/udev/rules.d/60-raw.rules

   ACTION=="add", ENV{MAJOR}=="253",ENV{MINOR}=="3", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw1 %N"
   ACTION=="add", ENV{MAJOR}=="253",ENV{MINOR}=="4", RUN+="/bin/raw /dev/raw/raw2 %N"
   ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="raw[1-9]",OWNER="grid",GROUP="dba",MODE="660"

   start_udev
   raw -qa

ASM Diskgroup maybe like this:

   CREATE DISKGROUP DATA1 NORMAL REDUNDANCY  
   FAILGROUP Fg1 DISK '/dev/raw/raw1' SIZE 2048M ,'/dev/raw/raw2' SIZE 184320M;

The effect: the size up 2G of DISKGROUP DATA1 cannot be used.

so any tricks to achieve this result online?

   lvreduce -L90G /dev/mapper/Lv_OraD2
   lvextend -L90G /dev/mapper/Lv_OraD1

Thanks.

Answer 1

First find the disk names and paths:

select name, failgroup, path, os_mb, total_mb, free_mb from v$asm_disk;

After you found the ASM generated name for the disk you want to shrink, reduce it in ASM to the desired size (I will assume it is called DATA1_0002:

alter diskgroup data1 resize disk DATA1_0002 size 90G;

This starts a rebalance, wait until the rebalance completes, you can view its progress as:

select * from v$asm_operation;

After the rebalance, run this query again:

select name, failgroup, path, os_mb, total_mb, free_mb from v$asm_disk;

There you should see the original 184320 OS_MB, and 92160 TOTAL_MB for the disks you have just shrinked. Next use lvreduce to shrink the LV:

lvreduce -L 90G vg_db/Lv_OraD2

Make sure you do not reduce the size of LV below the ASM disk size TOTAL_MB.

Once it is done, increase the other LV:

lvextend -L 90G g_db/Lv_OraD1

Go back to ASM, run this again:

select name, failgroup, path, os_mb, total_mb, free_mb from v$asm_disk;

Here the OS_MB for the first disk should increase to 92160, but TOTAL_MB still remain 2048.

The final step is to increase the first disk size in ASM:

alter diskgroup data1 resize all;

The above will resize all ASM disks in the diskgroup up to OS_MB. This triggers another short rebalance, and when that finished, you should see 92160 for OS_MB and TOTAL_MB for both disks.