You may need to repartition the disk you choose. Contact your operating system administrator for assistance.
When preparing a raw partition device, follow these guidelines:
Do not initialize a database device on the partition that contains your Sybase installation software. Doing so destroys all existing files on that partition.
A raw partition designated for use by Sybase cannot be mounted for use by the operating system for any other purpose, such as for file systems or swap space.
After a Sybase configuration utility or the disk init command has initialized a portion of a partition as a database device, you cannot use the entire partition for any other purpose. To dynamically increase the size of your database devices, rather than initializing a new device, use disk resize. See “Creating files for database devices”.
For best performance, place the Sybase software and all disk devices, including the master device, on the same machine.
To avoid any possibility of using a partition that contains the partition map, do not use cylinder 0.
Determine which raw partitions are available.
Determine the sizes of the raw partitions.
From the list of available raw partitions, select a raw partition for each device, based on the size recommendations in Table 1-1.
Verify with the operating System Administrator that the partition you have chosen is available.
Make sure the “sybase” user has read and write privileges to the raw partition.
For more information on choosing a raw partition, see
your operating system documentation.
Choosing a raw partition