Re: Creating a database on raw disk

From: Sudheer Tummala <sut_at_ordinal.micro.lucent.com>
Date: 1997/09/12
Message-ID: <3419B594.26FA@ordinal.micro.lucent.com>#1/1

Rosemary A. Walsh wrote:

> device.
>
> CREATE DATABASE fails with
>
> "cannot create control file '/dev/vs/rdsk/oracle/vol03/rdsrv1.cntl1'
> sfccf: fstat error, unable to obtain file status.
> SVR4 Error: 20: Not a directory"
>
> All of which seems to indicate that it is trying to create the control file
> within a file system and, of course, aI gave a raw device path together
> with file name.
>
> Oracle support seems to be swamped today and I have a deadline looming.
>
> Please respond to me at
>
> rwalsh_at_anstec-tech.com
> rwalsh_at_msn.com
>
> Thank you!!!!
>
> Rosemary Walsh

/dev/vs/rdsk/oracle/vol03/rdsrv1.cntl1

If oracle owns that raw partition, it seems like a typo (vs should be vx).

Sudheer

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Received on Fri Sep 12 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT