Chapter 1: Commands

disk refit

Description

Rebuilds the master database’s sysusages and sysdatabases system tables from information contained in sysdevices.

Syntax

disk refit

Examples

Example 1

disk refit

Usage

Adaptive Server automatically shuts down after disk refit rebuilds the system tables.
Use disk refit after disk reinit as part of the procedure to restore the master database.

You must start Adaptive Server with trace flag 3608 before you run disk refit. However, make sure you read the information in the Troubleshooting and Error Messages Guide before you start Adaptive Server with any trace flag.

Standards

ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.

Permissions

disk refit permission defaults to System Administrators and is not transferable. You must be in the master database to use disk refit.

Auditing

Values in event and extrainfo columns of sysaudits are:

Event	Audit option	Command or access audited	Information in extrainfo
21	disk	disk refit	Roles – Current active roles Keywords or options – disk refit Previous value – NULL Current value – NULL Other information – Name of the disk Proxy information – Original login name, if set proxy in effect