After a Grid Infrastructure installation and with an operational Oracle Clusterware, you can use Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant (ASMCA) to start the Oracle ASM instance and create Oracle ASM disk groups, Oracle ADVM volumes, and Oracle ACFS file systems. Alternatively, Oracle ASM disk groups and Oracle ADVM volumes can be created using SQL*Plus and ASMCMD command line tools. File systems can be created using operating system command-line tools.
Oracle ACFS file systems are configured with Oracle ADVM based operating system storage devices that are created automatically following the creation of an Oracle ADVM dynamic volume file. After a volume file and its associated volume device file are created, a file system can be created and bound to that operating system storage device. Following creation, an Oracle ACFS file system can be mounted, after which it is accessible to authorized users and applications executing file and file system operations.
For an example of the specific actions required to create a file system, refer to "Basic Steps to Manage Oracle ACFS Systems".
For information about managing Oracle ACFS file systems with ASMCA, refer to "ASMCA GUI Tool for Managing Oracle ACFS and Oracle ADVM".
For information about using Oracle ACFS commands to create a file system, refer to Managing Oracle ACFS with Command-Line Tools.
For information about configuring Oracle Clusterware resources for use with the database, refer to "Oracle Clusterware Resources and Oracle ACFS Administration".