Re: raw device dbspace size >2GB

That's right. You can't use for a chunk a raw device with an offset bigger than 2G (or if chunk offset + chunk size > 2GB). To use big disks you can do one of: 1. Split disk in a number of partitions of 2Gb each. 2. If number of partitions on disk is a constraint make just one partition and make a number of raw filesystems (actually slices) on it and use them. 3. Of course you can use a volume manager to make volumes of 2Gb each on these disks. Hope it helps, Octav On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 05:54:01AM +0000, hazemb@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Hi all, > > would someone please tell me If I can make a raw device dbspace with size > larger than 2GBytes ?? > if I can't do this, pls. tell me why.. > the platform I'm using is sun solaris 2.5.1 with IDS 7.2 ... > > I used to think that I can format the disk into slices larger than 2GB (i.e. > 3GB) and use the first 2GB of the slice as one dbspace, and then use the last > 1GB in another dbspace with offset set to 2GB, unfortunately it didn't work > !!!! > > honestly I don't know why, and it's very frustrating since I had to use cocked > files instead or otherwise I would have wasted a lot of space since I was > limited by a max. number of partitions of 7 ( a UNIX constraint ). > > please feed me back. > > regards, > > Hazem. > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com