I'm not sure if you can under Linux either, I haven't got around to trying
it... But Oracle allows raw disk partitions for its datafiles... so if you're
using Oracle on Linux, then you can try it... I do know that it works under
HP-UX...
Let me know what happens...
regards,
Ahbaid.
Arpad Tamas
> I know that under Oracle you can...
>
> For example under hp-ux you can issue a create tablespace command but
> specify the datafile as "/dev/rdsk/cot6d0/datafile01.dbf" which points to
> the raw disk itself...
>
> this places the datafile on a raw partition... I haven't tried this under
> Lin
> Sarath Chandra M wrote:
> Hi,
> ---> > I hav configured a RAID 5 with four disks. I
> ---> would like to have a /
> ---> > and /usr and /some linux native partitions. Apart from
> ---> these, I would
> ---> > like to have a few raw partitions
me linux native partitions. Apart from
---> these, I would
---> > like to have a few raw partitions for database usage. I
---> am using disk druid
---> > tool to do this while installation of redhat 6.0.
---> > Has anybody come across these raw partitions ?
---> > I wo
