idisk on HP-UX 11i V2 to partition disk

[Linda Marzik]

Can I use idisk to partition a disk into specific sizes to use for data? We are evaluating a rx7620 and have limited disk on the system. Oracle wants to do its own disk management without the disks being in LVM or VxVM. Can I use idisk to partition the disk into 4-6 partitions so Oracle will think it has more disk because it will use the /dev/dsk/cXtXdXsX name?

[Rgomes]

Yes, I guess so. At least idisk gives the freedom to set the number of partitions.

"An example partition description file is shown below:

2
EFI 100MB
HPUX 100%

The first entry specifies the number of partitions to create. The second specifies an EFI partition of 100 megabytes. The last entry specifies a HPUX partition consisting of all the remaining space on the disk after the EFI partition has been created."

Ref:
http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60103/B2355-60103_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60103/00/06/663-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-60103/00/06/663-toc.html&searchterms=idisk&queryid=20040821-070237


Regards,
Richard