Re: 9i RAC External shared hard disks

"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:Q5Uwa.35079$1s1.509184_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
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> "Connor McDonald" <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > I'm pretty sure that as long as CFS is at the 'front' of the spare disk
> > you're OK. In may case its currently the whole 120G second drive, but
> > I'm pretty sure I started with just a 10G CFS, with the remaining 110G
> > used under standard NTFS (but not for the rac obviosuly)
>
> Well, I tried that to destruction, with a free disk partition at the
front,
> middle and end of a disk, and it made not the slightest difference, which
is
> why (regarding your other post) 'spare disk space' doesn't equal 'spare
> disk'.
>
> If you really managed to pull off a 'spare disk space' install, I'd love
to
> know how you did it... 'cos in three months of trying, I never did.
>
> Regards
> HJR
Correction: it's just occured to me that if you were to install RAC with the 120G hard drive completely empty, but having partitioned off a 10G partition first, then it might work (another test looms). IE, 1 10G unformatted logical volume, and 110G of totally nothing. With RAC up-and-running, then you could create a new partition on the 110G part of the drive and use it for anything you like.

What you really can't do (I think!) is chop the drive into a 10G logical volume and a 110G NTFS (or anything else) partition, and then hope to install RAC.

The order of events is important, I guess.

Is that what you did?

Regards
HJR Received on Thu May 15 2003 - 17:17:38 CDT