"Howard J. Rogers" wrote:
>
> "Forte Agent" <1443131_at_usenetplanet.com> wrote in message
> news:4hl360l597b39g5ad8dgopbj8i2ot7fgn1_at_4ax.com...
> >
> > Can we run DBVERIFY on raw file system? If possible, does it need any
> > special parameter or anything? Thank you in advance.
>
> Given that dbv takes two key arguments, namely file=xxxx and blocksize=yyyy,
> it's going to be difficult to work with raw, because you're not going to be
> able to provide a file name for the first argument. But assuming you get
> past that hurdle somehow, 'yyyy' needs to be your actual db_block_size.
>
> Regards
> HJR
DBVERIFY can verify just a segment. It would be interesting to see if
one can verify a segment on a raw device with this utility. I don't have
such disks available to me, otherwise I would test it out.
Cheers,
Brian
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Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 14:13:48 CST
