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

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 Received on Thu Aug 15 2002 - 06:52:15 CDT