There are several ways to determine how a raw partition is being used:
Interview your operating system administrator.
Examine your file system table.
Examine the partition map.
The file system table name varies by platform. Check your operating system manual for the correct name.
Good commenting in the file system table helps prevent
most disk partition errors.
Each partition includes a partition map, which is usually in the first sector of the first cylinder.
The partition includes the partition map, which is usually in the first sector of the first cylinder. Refer to your operating system administration guide for steps to determine at what cylinder a partition starts.
If you are running the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
on an AIX operating system, verify that the first AIX cylinder of
your raw partition is free (except for the master device) and is
available for the use of the LVM configuration. In order to do this,
make sure that vstart = 2 (one AIX
cylinder = 2 Sybase pages on default server) for all user-defined
disks.
Refer to your operating system documentation for more information about disk partition administration. The Adaptive Server installation and configuration guide contains additional information about choosing a raw partition for your database device.
