ken schneider gyaccrka9bouttymenet dirk moolman pecked keyboard wrote original message ken schneider mailtogyaccrka9bouttymenet sent 13 february 2008 0610 pm wkilxlocopensuseorg subject opensuse use entire disk partition carlos e r pecked keyboard wrote partition structure raw construct didnt mean partition structure filesystem oracle years 10 know using raw disk store data need create filesystem way used informix using raw devices migrated oracle learn oracle scratch new collegues worked oracle years says raw device necessary found strange say oracle fast enough cooked files oh well im senior dba anymore go recommendations ah yes informix indeed looked back backup programs wrote backup db stated oracle think earlier company claimed much faster write raw disk disks much faster today probably true yep charge need go flow ken schneider suse since version 52 june 1998 wed 06 aug 2008 013737 0500 opensuse use entire disk partition