Unless it's a SCSI drive -- then you're limited to 15 partitions. At least under 2.4 -- not sure about 2.6. Our <$1K test RAC system has a shared SCSI drive. <sigh> Rich -----Original Message----- From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:30 PM To: 'arunrao_oradba@xxxxxxxxxxx'; Jesse, Rich; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Ocfs file system crash That sounds about right, having in mind that RH AS 2.1 has the 2.4.20 kernel. Of course, you can always use fdisk and cut the disk into the raw partitions. On RH AS 2.1 you can have 255 of those, 4GB each, which is a decent size database. -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: arun chakrapani rao [ mailto:arunrao_oradba@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:39 PM To: Rich.Jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Ocfs file system crash The ocfs is ocfs-2.4.20-18.10-1.0.10-2 ocfs-support-1.0.10-2 ocfs-tools-1.0.10-2 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l