Re: How to get the size of raw device files

From: <ashish25_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:21:13 GMT
Message-ID: <8tmkgi$n3j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

In HPUX you can use lvdisplay to get the raw file size Ashish Gupta
Oracle DBA

In article <8tm25d$9fv$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, maiklb_at_my-deja.com wrote:
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> Is there a way to get the exact file size of a
> character special file in a Oracle Database ?
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> 1) I can't query the information from Oracle because
> Oracle isn't running.
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> 2) The processing of "dd if=.. of=.. bs=.." takes too long
> using small blocksizes.
>
> Thanks
> Michael
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