[SOLVED] dd command gets stuck

Yep procfs is correct, no way to merge partitions with dd. Best practices would be to backup data, re-create your partitions as needed then rsync or copy your data back.

Thank you for both reply.

RSYNC require networking isn't it? That make thing a bit complex.

Hi fhleung, not at all you can do will the system like

rsync -acv /directory1 /directory2 (something like that)

Regards

Hi I though I should post the solution that I found to this oracle problem,

I am not sure why this happened or why oracle behave this way, but the solution was prity much simple all I had to do is add HOST=ccbsn02.localdomain to file /etc/sysconfig/network

The cluster comes up without any issue; the only change that was required was HOST entry. I just used kernel.hostaname and kernel.domainame for host name and domain name which oracle did not like. It looks like oracle reads this file (or something) to get the host name (I may be wrong) rather than getting the host name from “hostname” command while starting init.ohasd.

1. appreciate Any comments with the above findings?
2. What is the relation between dd command and this host entry?
3. If its a prerequset wonder why oracle has not documented this (at least I did not find any )

hope this help some one

Thanks and Best Regards

I am sorry for the double entries, my machine is playing up!!