RE: 4 Primary partitions limitations

From: Bort, Guillermo <guillermo.bort_at_eds.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:08:02 -0600
Message-ID: <785A4E1EF4D9E745BAC909B7941BEC00AC4C8C@usplm201.amer.corp.eds.com>

If I understand this correctly, the luns will be presented a different 'disks' to Linux, such as /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. in such case, you can create up to four primary partitions in each of those 'disks'. As for ASM, since it uses raw devices on linux, you can create extended partitions and it works fine.

I have a RHEL4U6 with Oracle10g (10.2.0.4). Database is completely in ASM (except for a few testing datafiles) and disk configuration due to hardware restrictions is:

/dev/sda1		/boot
/dev/sda2		/
/dev/sda3		/var
/dev/sda4		extended


	/dev/sda5	/usr


	/dev/sda6	/var/lib/vmware(something)


	/dev/sda7	/u01


	/dev/sda8	raw


	/dev/sda9	raw


	/dev/sda10	swap

So, I guess this is all aimed to show that while you certainly *can* have extended partitions as ASM Diskgroups, it's not necessary to create extended partition on secondary disks.

HTH Guillermo Alan Bort
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-----Original Message-----
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of hrishy Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:28 AM To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: 4 Primary partitions limitations

Hi

I am planning to use ASM and following diskgroups

1)DataDg
2)redoDg1
3)redoDg2
4)flashDg

I have 4 Usable Luns from the SAN that are presented to the host o/s which is rhel 5

I have already created 3 primary partitions on Linux

1)MBR
2)root 
3)home

These partitions are under Linux LVM(Logical Volume Manager)

since BIOS supports only 4 primary partitions how can i use the 4 usable luns.

should i be creating a extended partitions on the LUNS that are presented to the host operating system

regards
Hrishy       

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