Re: overspecifying raw dev size

My experience has been that if you overspecify the chunk size, Informix does complain. It returns something to the effect that there is not enough space on the disk to fit the overspecified chunk. Like you, I also underspecify ( Leave a 1-2 MB offset at the beginning of the device and leave 10-15 MB at the end). Not sure that this is the best way, but my sysadm tells me that leaving some free space on the disk provides for repair of bad blocks more efficiently. Raj