Re: ASM and disk partitions offset

  • From: "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:13:30 +0100

I meant:

now I remember that once, when I was setting up a test RAC on Solaris, I 
wasn't able to make the partitions visible for asm disk creation
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Dimitre

> On 14/02/2012 00:08, Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:
>> On 14/02/2012 00:00, Riyaj Shamsudeen wrote:
>>> I don't recollect exact details, but disk VTOC (Volume Table of 
>>> Contents) information is kept in the initial part of the disk, in 
>>> Solaris. You have to skip 1MB, so that VTOC is not overwritten. This 
>>> applies only to Solaris, AFAIK.
>>
>> Hi Riyaj,
>> thanks for pointing this out.
>>
>> Yes, now I remember that I wasn't able to make the partitions visible 
>> for asm disk creation until I partitioned the disks using a 
>> non-default offset.
>> This requirement is documented in the Install guide for Solaris:
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