Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive

Carroll, Kevin wrote: > > Is there any way to utilize an 18.2GB hard drive? This is how I understand > the situation. Max dbspace is 2gb, max chunk + offset is 2gb, so partitions > on drive can only be utilized up to 2gb. A dbspaces can have a size of more than 2GB ( about 4 Terabyte ). The limit chunk + offset <= 2GB is correct ( on a few platforms Informix allows chunk + offset <= 4GB, but the chunk size must be <= 2GB ). > There are only 7 partitions > available (8th is forced for backup tag). At 2gb per partition, max > utilization per drive is 14gb. This is absurd. Am I to understand that > Informix cannot handle larger drives? Please help. > > Thanks, > > Kevin M. Carroll On most UNIX platforms there's a Logical Volume manager ( sometimes it's called Virtual Disk Manager ). LVMs help you to create as many logical partitions for your physical partitions as you will need. Please, be so kind and tell us what operating system you are using. Best regards, Stefan Weideneder