Re: Informix setup for RedHat 6.0

If you are not using any data on this partition (hdb5) you just have to unmount it and to remove it from the /etc/filesys (sorry, I don't remember where is it on Linux). Then as you said you have to make a sym link to the hdb5 device and you can use it. Anyway, you can repartition your disk usning fdisk (and I think it could be done online). A more simple way is just to make an empty file on the mounted filesystem and use it as cooked space (anyway Linux doesn't support yet in its standard configurations raw disk spaces as I know). Best Regards, Octav On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Carlson@WHSmith wrote: > 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 -- 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