Syntax

DBMS_FS.DESTROY_ORACLE_FS (
   fstype      IN VARCHAR2,
   fsname      IN VARCHAR2);

Parameters

Usage Notes

• You can find information about the currently mounted file systems by querying the V$OFSMOUNT dynamic view.

• For more information about the file system types, see the fstype description in MAKE_ORACLE_FS Procedure.

• Before you run the DBMS_FS.DESTROY_ORACLE_FS procedure, you must unmount the file system by using the DBMS_FS.UNMOUNT_ORACLE_FS procedure.

• After you run DBMS_FS.DESTROY_ORACLE_FS, Oracle Database destroys the file system and frees the associated resources.

Example

This example shows how to destroy an OFS file system:

BEGIN
 DBMS_FS.DESTROY_ORACLE_FS (
  fstype           => 'ofs',
  fsname           => 'dbfs_fs1');
END;
/

Syntax

DBMS_FS.MAKE_ORACLE_FS (
   fstype      IN VARCHAR2,                             
   fsname      IN VARCHAR2,                             
   fsoptions   IN VARCHAR2);

Parameters

"tablespace=tablespace_name"

Usage Notes

• If you want to create a database file system (DBFS), then you must run the dbfs_create_filesystem.sql script, which in turn calls the dbfs_create_filesystem_advanced.sql script. By default, this script is in the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directory. When you run this script, provide the name of an existing tablespace and a name for the file system that will be stored in the database. The size of the file system will be the same as the table size. For example, to create a file system in the dbfs_ts tablespace, in the file system dbfs_tab:

  @/$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/dbfs_create_filesystem.sql dbfs_ts dbfs_tab 

  After you run this script, you can use the other procedures in the DBMS_FS package to mount, unmount, and destroy the file system.

• Running the DBMS_FS.MAKE_ORACLE_FS procedure on the database instance is equivalent to running the mkfs command by root in an operating system.

• The tablespace that you specified in the fsoptions parameter must already exist before you execute the DBMS_FS.MAKE_ORACLE_FS procedure. To find existing tablespaces, query the DBA_TABLESPACES data dictionary view.

• The size of the file system is the same size as this tablespace.

Example

This example shows how to create an OFS file system:

BEGIN
 DBMS_FS.MAKE_ORACLE_FS (
  fstype           => 'ofs',
  fsname           => 'ofs_fs1',
  mount_options    => 'TABLESPACE=ofs_fs1_tbspc');
END;
/

Syntax

DBMS_FS.MOUNT_ORACLE_FS (
  fstype           IN VARCHAR2,                              
  fsname           IN VARCHAR2,                              
  mount_point      IN VARCHAR2,                              
  mount_options    IN VARCHAR2); 

Parameters

Usage Notes

Usage Notes

• This procedure makes the files system visible in the local database instance.

• For more information about the file system types, see the fstype description in MAKE_ORACLE_FS Procedure.

• You can find information about currently mounted file systems by querying the V$OFSMOUNT dynamic view.

• Run the DBMS_FS.MOUNT_ORACLE_FS procedure on a file system that has already been created with DBMS_FS.MAKE_ORACLE_FS in the local computer node where the Oracle database instance is running. You cannot run this procedure on file systems that were created outside of Oracle Database.

Example

BEGIN
 DBMS_FS.MOUNT_ORACLE_FS (
  fstype           => 'dbfs',                              
  fsname           => 'dbfs_fs1',                              
  mount_point      => '/oracle/dbfs/testfs',                              
  mount_options    => 'default_permissions, allow_other, persist'); 
END;

Syntax

DBMS_FS.UNMOUNT_ORACLE_FS (
  fsname             IN VARCHAR2,                              
  mount_point        IN VARCHAR2,                              
  unmount_options    IN VARCHAR2); 

Usage Notes

• Before you unmount the file system, ensure that all applications that use this file system are shut down. Also ensure that no processes refernce the mounting file system.

• You can find information about the currently mounted file systems by querying the V$OFSMOUNT dynamic view.

• For more information about the file system types, see the fstype description in MAKE_ORACLE_FS Procedure.

• When an Oracle instance is shut down in normal immediate mode, then all the mounted file systems are automatically unmounted.

• If a file system is mounted from the operating system level with the persist option of the mount command, it is automatically mounted again when the database instance starts. If this file system is unmounted by executing DBMS_FS.UNMOUNT_ORACLE_FS, then it is not automatically mounted when the database instance starts.

• If you perform a SHUTDOWN ABORT, then the file system may still show as mounted but not accessible. In this case, you must unmount the system manually by calling  unmount command at the operating system level or fusermount procedure on Linux systems.

• You can export the local mount point of an Oracle file system to point to the remote system, and then NFS mount the file system from the remote system by using the operating system mount command. The DBMS_FS.MOUNT_ORACLE_FS procedure is similar to mount commands that are used for other local file systems.

• For better security, Oracle recommends that you use access control lists (ACLs) and Kerberos to control access to sensitive data.

• Do not attempt to unmount the file system from the operating system level. Doing so can leave the Oracle Database-created file system internal tables in an inconsistent state.

Example

BEGIN
 DBMS_FS.UNMOUNT_ORACLE_FS (
  fsname           => 'dbfs_fs1',                              
  mount_point      => '/oracle/dbfs/testfs',
  mount_options    => 'force'); 
END;