RE: Problems with Large Hard disks

The slice 0 below is not required. Place the filesystem at the beginning of the disk, then use slice 1 as another raw partition. Point: You can use one more raw slice. Alternatives have already been discussed. Murray Wood -----Original Message----- From: Muhammad Usman [SMTP:mu999@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 1:45 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Problems with Large Hard disks Hi We are using Informix 7.23UC4 on Solaris 2.5.1. We have installed 2x18.2GB Hard disks. As I understand, a chunk size cannot exceed 2GB in Informix where as in Solaris a disk can have only 8 partitions. Out of 8, one is required for backup (required by Unix) and one for Informix (0-3)cyclinders . Now, we are left with the only combination of 5x 2GB(raw partitions) + 1 x 6.85GB (Unix file system). In short, 18GB Hard disk has been partitioned as under: Part Cylinders Size 0 0 - 3 9.2MB ( required for Informix for Raw disks) 1 4 - 3050 6.85GB 2 0 - 7505 16.8GB backup - (created by Unix by default) 3 3051 - 3941 2GB (raw disk) 4 3941 - 4832 2GB (raw disk) 5 4833 - 5723 2GB (raw disk) 6 5724 - 6814 2GB (raw disk) 7 6815 - 7505 2GB (raw disk) Is there any suggestions? Is there a better way of doing the things? Thanx Muhammad Usman