DB2 10.5 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

Adding storage paths

You can add a storage path to a storage group by using the ALTER STOGROUP statement.

About this task

When you add a storage path for a multipartition database environment, the storage path must exist on each database partition. If the specified path does not exist on every database partition, the statement is rolled back.

Procedure

To add storage paths to a storage group, issue the following ALTER STOGROUP statement:
```
ALTER STOGROUP sg ADD '/hdd/path1', '/hdd/path2', ...
```
where sg is the storage group and /hdd/path1, /hdd/path2, ... are the storage paths being added.
Important: All the paths that you assign to a storage group should have similar media characteristics: underlying disks, latency, device read rate, and size. If paths have non-uniform media characteristics, performance might be inconsistent.
After adding one or more storage paths to the storage group, you can optionally use the ALTER TABLESPACE statement to rebalance table spaces to immediately start using the new storage paths. Otherwise, the new storage paths are used only when there is no space in the containers on the existing storage paths. To determine all of the affected permanent table spaces in the storage group, run the following statement:
```
SELECT TBSP_NAME
   FROM table (MON_GET_TABLESPACE(' ', -2))
   WHERE TBSP_USING_AUTO_STORAGE = 1
      AND TBSP_CONTENT_TYPE IN ('ANY','LARGE')
      AND STORAGE_GROUP_NAME = 'sg'
   ORDER BY TBSP_ID
```
Once the table spaces have been identified, you can perform the following statement for each of the table spaces listed:
```
ALTER TABLESPACE tablespace_name REBALANCE
```
where tablespace_name is the table space.