Re: Informix setup for RedHat 6.0
Informix will not accept your /data as rootdbs (or any other chunk) path. You don't have to mount /dev/hdb5 - just use it as the rootdbs path. You don't have to make any filesystem on /dev/hdb5 (of course you can make it and mount it, but then you have to create a zero length file and set this file as the rootdbs file). I think you are not making any filesystem on HP-UX on your logical volumes. Am I wrong ? HTH, Octav On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:07:19AM -0400, Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > OK, I'm in a new area here . . . playing sysadmin on my RedHat at home. > I have RedHat installed and configured correctly, as far as I know. I > have a 1.5G partition for data, set up as /dev/hdb5 and mounted as > /data. I'm trying to bring up my Informix instance, but it doesn't > accept /data for the rootdbs path. > > I've been in the HPUX world for a while, where you take a disk and split > it up using LVM, then access it using a link (we use mknod). I'm sure > that there's something unique to Linux that I'm missing. > > Anyone out there have recommendations concerning disk usage and setup > for Informix data spaces? If I need to trash my current Linux > configuration and repartition my disk, that's OK too. (Just playing > around with my system at home . . . <G>) > > Thanks in advance > > John Carlson > Informix DBA > RedHat 6.0 user -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com
No, in the HP world we're not using filesystems; my Informix rawspaces don't show up in a bdf at all. All I would need to do then in Linux would be to make sure that /dev/hdb5 doesn't mount and then create a symlink to this device, right? What level of repartitioning would I need to do, since I've already set a filesystem as a mount point for this parition? It would seem that there's a way to partition on the fly, but I haven't found it yet. Thanks for the patience John Carlson Informix DBA Red Hat 6.0 system admin -- YIKES! Octav Chiriac wrote: > > Informix will not accept your /data as rootdbs (or any other chunk) > path. You don't have to mount /dev/hdb5 - just use it as the rootdbs > path. You don't have to make any filesystem on /dev/hdb5 (of course you can > make it and mount it, but then you have to create a zero length file > and set this file as the rootdbs file). > I think you are not making any filesystem on HP-UX on your logical > volumes. Am I wrong ? > > HTH, > Octav > > On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 10:07:19AM -0400, Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > > OK, I'm in a new area here . . . playing sysadmin on my RedHat at home. > > I have RedHat installed and configured correctly, as far as I know. I > > have a 1.5G partition for data, set up as /dev/hdb5 and mounted as > > /data. I'm trying to bring up my Informix instance, but it doesn't > > accept /data for the rootdbs path. > > > > I've been in the HPUX world for a while, where you take a disk and split > > it up using LVM, then access it using a link (we use mknod). I'm sure > > that there's something unique to Linux that I'm missing. > > > > Anyone out there have recommendations concerning disk usage and setup > > for Informix data spaces? If I need to trash my current Linux > > configuration and repartition my disk, that's OK too. (Just playing > > around with my system at home . . . <G>) > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > John Carlson > > Informix DBA > > RedHat 6.0 user > -- > Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 > NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 > Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 > Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com