I believe it was also done to align ASM disks with stripe size which is generally in multiples of 2. At least this was the case with Linux, using fdisk for disk partitions. Stalin On Feb 13, 2012, at 3:13 PM, "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > [...] > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l