RE: 18.2GB Hard Drive

David, If you mean that you can use a 2gb chunk with a 2gb offset, this can cause errors. The offset and chunk size combined should not exceed 2gb. What you can do is use a logical volume manager to partition the disk. Then you can allocate the chunks to the raw logical devices. Regards David Ashby -----Original Message----- From: David Coburn [mailto:dcoburn@worldvision.org] Sent: Thursday, 30 July 1998 6:13 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive >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. 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 RTFM on the onspaces command. You can specify an offset into a device (in kbytes) and a size. This means that you can specify up to four 2gb and one 0.2 gb chunks. Take care though that your OS doesn't use the first few tracks of the drive for VTOC type information. The hardware types should be able to tell you if so, and how much to reserve. David