You may need to repartition the disk you choose. Contact your operating system
administrator for assistance.
- Do not initialize a
database device on the partition that contains your SAP installation
software. Doing so destroys all existing files on that partition.
- You cannot mount a
raw partition designated for use by SAP for use by the operating system for
any other purpose, such as for file systems or swap space.
- After a SAP
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.
- For best
performance, place the SAP 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.