Re: How do you address raw devices (ie, logcail partitions) in windows?

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
>
> Daft question, and I guess you can tell I haven't worked with raw devices
> much in NT/Win2000.
>
> But how do you issue a create tablespace command when you want the
> 'datafile' to be a raw partition (otherwise known as a logical partition)?
>
> I've tried:
>
> create tablespace blah datafile '\\device\harddisk\partition6'...
>
> and it thinks I'm trying to contact the network!
>
> I know you can set up symbolic links, just as in Unix. But what if I don't
> want symbolic links?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Regards
> HJR
I think you lose one of the slashes at front

http://otn.oracle.com/doc/oracle8i_816/nt.816/a73008/apd.htm

hth
connor

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