RHEL 5: Oracle raw devices ownership changes after reboot

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Issue

  • All the files permission for oracle raw devices got changed after reboot, it became root:dist
    example
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 113 Sep 27 02:05 vg_test_02
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 112 Sep 27 02:05 vg_test_03
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 102 Sep 27 02:05 vg_test_04
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 101 Sep 27 02:05 vg_test_05
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 253, 100 Sep 27 02:05 vg_test_06
  • Due to this DB didn't start and we have to manually chaged them to sybase:dba

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Oracle raw disks

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