Re: Using "raw disk" for Informix on UNIX

In article <2l7pjo$l03@stargate.promus.com> ekays@promus.com (Gene Kays) writes: [ deleted ] > >BTW *if* the drive being utilized for the database *is not* your >system's boot device you can reclaim the first 34 blocks which you >are not using. > I don't believe this is true for all platforms. For Suns, the partition table is written in the initial blocks. So if you are using a partition that includes the initial blocks, you must provide an offset. This has nothing to do with whether or not the disk is your boot device. I believe that SunOS has special code to ignore the initial blocks when formatting files systems on such a partition or using the partition as swap space, etc. I didn't see the original post that Gene Kays was responding to so I apologize in advance if the original post mentioned specific hardware. But having trashed more than one disk I wanted to at least raise the issue. Scott