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Carlos E. R. wrote:
=20 =20 The Wednesday 2008-02-13 at 13:51 +0200, Dirk Moolman wrote: =20 =20
Sorry, let me explain. =20 We are using Oracle. Oracle uses filesystems to create datafiles in, for example it will create files like: =20 /oradata01/system01.dbf /oradata02/users01.dbf =20 =20 Now if /oradata02 (a new filesystem I created) points to the device /dev/sda, instead of /dev/sda1 (a partition on sda), will this be a problem ?
I don't believe you can do this. I may be wrong but I believe you will need to create a single partition /dev/sda1 that encompasses the entire disk and use that.
The thing is, I already did. I was able to format the entire disk (/dev/sda) using a tool Oracle provides, without creating a partition on the disk (so I skipped the fdisk part), and then did a mkfs (using mkfs.ocfs - also provided by Oracle), and then I mounted the device (/dev/sda). This worked fine, and I can write to the new filesystem (/oradata02) /etc/fstab ----------- /dev/sda /oradata02 ocfs defaults 0 0 Dirk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org