How To Change the location of Voting Disk in 10gR2 Oracle RAC

How To Change the location of Voting Disk in 10gR2 Oracle RAC

Voting Disk:
1.) Login as root
2.) Shutdown CRS on all nodes:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl stop crs
Stopping resources.
Successfully stopped CRS resources
Stopping CSSD.
Shutting down CSS daemon.
Shutdown request successfully issued.
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl check crs
Failure 1 contacting CSS daemon
Cannot communicate with CRS
Cannot communicate with EVM

3.) Check the the location of the voting disk:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl query css votedisk
0. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd1
1. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd2
2. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd3

4.) Copy the voting disk to the new location:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# cp /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd2 /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror1/
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# cp /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd3 /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror2/

5.) Change the location in CRS:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl add css votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror1/vd2
Now formatting voting disk: /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror1/vd2
successful addition of votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror1/vd2.
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl add css votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror2/vd3
Now formatting voting disk: /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror2/vd3
successful addition of votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror2/vd3.

6.) Delete the old Voting Disks:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# crsctl delete css votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd2 -force
successful deletion of votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd2.
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# crsctl delete css votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd3 -force
successful deletion of votedisk /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd3.

7.) Query CRS to see if the changes where proper:
root@oracle-server:/home/crs/bin[bin]# ./crsctl query css votedisk
0. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs/vd1
1. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror2/vd3
2. 0 /mnt/prdaudit_crs_mirror1/vd2

PS: The permission to the voting disk should be root:dba, while copying and creating voting disk as we are using the root user, the permission will change to root:root, which will give error when starting crs.