Re: Raw Disk

Peeping Ed (peepinged@aol.com) wrote: : Hi, : I need some assistance here if anyone can help. I am running INFORMIX OLTP 5.0 : and am using a series of raw disks. I recently added 3 chunks to a dbspace. : These chunks are in slice 0 and each chunk is an entire disk. The disks are not : mounted as UNIX file systems. My problem is that I forgot to skip over the : "sweet spot" on the disk (first 32 blocks). First, is this a problem given the : way I am using the entire disk for a raw device. I haven't come across any hardware where this mattered for many years. Second, if it is a problem, : how can I de-allocate those chunks. No data has been written to them yet. You can't. You have to drop the whole dbspace. graeme -- Disclaimer: The author's opinions are his own, and not necessarily those of Pyramid Technology Ltd. or Pyramid Technology Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -m------- Graeme Sargent Voice: +44 (0)252 373035 ---mmm----- Senior Database Consultant Fax : +44 (0)252 373135 -----mmmmm--- Pyramid Technology Ltd. Telex: Tell who??? -------mmmmmmm- Farnborough, Hants GU14 7PL Email: graeme@pyra.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the technology. The tricky bit is learning how to use it.