Re: 18.2GB Hard Drive

This does not help. the size + offset must not be greater than 2 GB. regards David Coburn wrote: > >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 -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.