RE: ASM disk group

> I do not recommend that you use this command, but it did work
for the test server on which ASM was installed.

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda5 bs=1024 count=64

Being a Linux disk name and had at that, you are at least a bit safer than if it was /dev/sda. With the typical bare-bones stripped down clusters some are deploying RAC on, I encourage all to make sure that /dev/sda is pointing to the same physical disk on all nodes of the cluster before doing this. Remember, Linux is not very cluster-aware and the device-slip problems typical of legacy unix clusters of the early 90s can still plague a linux cluster. That is, if you are on a bare-bones, stripped down Linux cluster ...

:-)

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