text_combined: aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom dirk moolman wrote original message disclaimer information contained email confidential legally privileged intended solely addressee others authority receive access email anyone else unauthorized disclosure copying distribution action taken omitted reliance unlawful received email error please notify sender immediately views expressed email views individual sender way construed views company company liable ensure outgoing emails virusfree company liable information data whatever reason corrupted fail reach intended addressee company liable loss damage whatsoever nature howsoever arising resulting opening use information email including attachments links sender email subject bound terms conditions companys electronic communications usage policy kr foley mailtokrcybsftcom20 sent 13 february 2008 0405 pm carlos e r cc osen subject opensuse use entire disk partition carlos e r wrote 20 20 wednesday 20080213 1351 퍭 dirk moolman wrote 20 20 sorry let explain 20 using oracle oracle uses filesystems create datafiles example create files like 20 oradata01system01dbf oradata02users01dbf 20 20 oradata02 new filesystem created points device devsda instead devsda1 partition sda problem dont believe may wrong believe need create single partition devsda1 encompasses entire disk use thing already able format entire disk devsda using tool oracle provides without creating partition disk skipped fdisk part mkfs using mkfsocfs also provided oracle mounted device devsda worked fine write new filesystem oradata02 work fine right disk moved another system new systems admin doesnt know disk doesnt partition table attempting pull data comes logical conclusion partition table needs repaired proceed point hes overwriting start oracle data things properly use damned partition table cant believe 1 2 disk blocks reserved partition table going difference oracle database enough storage space etcfstab devsda oradata02 ocfs defaults 0 0 newbie sysadmin whatever reason say course troubleshooting fdisk devsda sees nonsense fdisk thinks partition table attempts correct specifying sda1 cover whole disk rest empty happen tue 05 aug 2008 115218 0500 opensuse use entire disk partition