Oracle 10g RAC installation: 05 new partitions table for the OCFS and ASM disks

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Start your rac1 node from the vmware virtual machine server, login as the root user and execute

fdisk /dev/sdb

Type m to read all the fdisk options otherwise at first when prompted for the command, type n (create a new partition), type p (for a primary partition), type 1 (for partition number), type return or 1 (for First cylinder), type return or 512 (Last cylinder), type w (for write the partition) and wait ioctl to re-read the partition table and syncing the disks.


Then execute

fdisk /dev/sdc

Type n (create a new partition), type p (for a primary partition), type 1 (for partition number), type return or 1 (for First cylinder), type return or 261 (Last cylinder), type w (for write the partition) and wait ioctl to re-read the partition table and syncing the disks.

Then execute

fdisk /dev/sdd

Type n (create a new partition), type p (for a primary partition), type 1 (for partition number), type return or 1 (for First cylinder), type return or 261 (Last cylinder), type w (for write the partition) and wait ioctl to re-read the partition table and syncing the disks.


Then execute

fdisk /dev/sde

Type n (create a new partition), type p (for a primary partition), type 1 (for partition number), type return or 1 (for First cylinder), type return or 261 (Last cylinder), type w (for write the partition) and wait ioctl to re-read the partition table and syncing the disks.

If you would like to see your new partitions table type fdisk -l.