aaron kulkis cmiqlkx91hotpopcom carlos e r wrote begin pgp signed message hash sha1 wednesday 20080213 1351 0200 dirk moolman wrote sorry let explain using oracle oracle uses filesystems create datafiles example create files like oradata01system01dbf oradata02users01dbf oradata02 new filesystem created points device devsda instead devsda1 partition sda problem far know isnt much problem assume space initialized mkfs test write file using entire space disk dd ifdevnull check kernel log recall oracle gets even better performance use raw disk partition capable managing block placement raw disk gets much better perfomance using disk space filesystem driver said decides use whole disk includes 1 2 blocks normally reserved partition table part raw block device hes begging data loss disk ever removed system put another reason hey partition table makes sense must problem ill remake first partition use whole diskand wham first 512 1024 bytes overwritten also possible write single file device without filesystem raw understand databases diddo entire device problem partition limits overwriting another partition space supposed faster tue 05 aug 2008 114037 0500 opensuse use entire disk partition