Set up bare devices on Red Hat 4

Installing Oracle on Linux often encounters situations where you need to use a bare device, and here's how to set up a bare device on red Hat 4.

This document is installed on the basis of the installation of Oracle software and is installed with the option to install Oracle software only.

The next step is to create a new database based on the bare device ...

1. Add a hard drive to root the OS

[Root@rac1 oracle]# Fdisk-l

disk/dev/sda:255 heads, sectors, 652 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/DEV/SDA1 * 1 104391 Linux

/dev/sda2 200812+ Linux Swap

/dev/sda3 652 4931955 Linux

disk/dev/sdh:128 heads, sectors, cylinders

Units = cylinders of 4096 * bytes

DISK/DEV/SDH doesn ' t contain a valid partition table

2. DISK/DEV/SDH partition into LVM format (8e partition type)

disk/dev/sdh:128 heads, sectors, cylinders

Units = cylinders of 4096 * bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/DEV/SDH1 1 1048560 8e Linux LVM