Oracle Database, and RAC: How to delete, add, remove OCR and Voting Disk

This post is directed for DBAs who need to modify, or move OCR and voting disk locations. Some times a DBA wants to move to new storage area location. Typically, one would simply copy or dd the files once the new storage has been presented to the hosts. But when moveing OCR and/or voting disk its a little bit different.


ADD/REMOVE/REPLACE OCR Device
You must be logged in as the root user, because root own the OCR files.

Make sure there is a recent copy of the OCR file before making any changes:
ocrconfig –showbackup

If there is not a recent backup copy of the OCR file, an export can be taken for the current OCR file. Use the following command to generate an export of the online OCR file:
ocrconfig –export -s online

To recover using the export file use the following command:
ocrconfig import