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How to Resolve Unable to setup ACFS storage for the database

When I recreate a database using oakcli, it shown the following errors:

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INFO   : 2017-05-20 09:25:49: Required dir /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore/.ACFS/snaps/testdb is already existing and not empty. Can not setup the storage for the database with this name
ERROR  : 2017-05-20 09:25:49: Failed to setup the storage directories for the database testdb
ERROR  : Unable to setup ACFS storage for the database : testdb
ERROR  : 2017-05-20 09:25:49: Unable to create the Database : testdb
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The error was pretty straightforward, it indicated that the directory /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore/.ACFS/snaps/testdb is not empty and cannot be continued. So I took several steps to solve it.

Delete the incomplete database (again) to make sure no other factors to affect our solution.

[root@oda0 ~]# oakcli delete database -db test
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Remove the directory in ACFS.

[root@oda0 ~]# cd /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore/.ACFS/snaps/
[root@oda0 snaps]# rm -rf testdb
rm: cannot remove `testdb': Directory not empty

The error message is all right, because the directory is at shared storage. So you don't have to care that.

Create the database again

[root@oda0 snaps]# oakcli create database -db testdb -oh OraDb11204_home1 -params testdbconfig
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INFO: 2017-05-20 09:39:40: Required snap location /u02/app/oracle/oradata/datastore/.ACFS/snaps/testdb is already existing with no files. Will be using this existing directory
INFO: 2017-05-20 09:39:41: Required snap location /u02/app/oracle/oradata/flashdata/.ACFS/snaps/testdb is already existing with no files. Will be using this existing directory
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It passed.

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