Re: Clusterware installation / raw partition permissions

ryansinn_at_gmail.com wrote:
> I'm setting up Oracle 10gR2 on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and I'm
> encountering an error during the installation...
>
> I've followed Oracle, IBM, Novell and about 5 independent "how tos" on
> setting up Clusterware and I'm stuck at the RAW partition permissions.
>
> The OS doesn't seem to have a problem mapping the raw partitions to
> the disks and I don't have any issues creating them with fdisk.
>
> When I'm installing Clusterware 10.2.0.1 (prior to installing the
> database) I receive the following error on the OCR location screen:
>
> "The specified shared raw partition /dev/raw/raw1 may not have correct
> permission. Verify that the partition is owned by Oracle User."
>
> I've recreating the raw partitions... setting the permissions to 777
> (it couldn't be permission related then)... changing the owners, the
> groups... it should have all worked (according to everyone's
> documentation) without adjusting any of that... but it's not.
>
> Something else must be the real problem because it errors out even
> with permissions set to 777.
>
> Any thoughts?

What is the output from:

$ ls –al /dev/raw

$ raw -qa

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