raw FS

[himacs]

Hi admins,

I want to reboot my server,which consists raw files under /dev/vg_rac.Should i take any precautions for these before going to reboot.

Quick response is highly appreciated..

regards,
himacs

[Bill Hassell]

> raw FS

There really isn't anything like that. Every logical volume starts as a raw device. You might use it as a swap area, or run newfs to create a filesystem in it, or it might be used by a database such as Sybase, Informix or Oracle as a raw partition. So when you reboot, you MUST shutdown any processes that use this area. If you randomly kill any of those processes, especially kill -9, you will likely corrupt the raw volume.

And you'll need a good raw volume backup program so you can restore the volume when it is corrupted or destroyed.

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi Himacs,

Check this thread:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=664557

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=198966&admit=109447627+1242099062163+28353475

Rgds-Kranti