I am running RedHat 6.2E on two Dell PowerEdge 6450 with a shared external drive array. The external array has 510GB of drive space and consists of 8 partitions at the hardware level. At the OS level I am creating 2GB partitions to use as RAW devices for Oracle. When I use fdisk to create the primary and extended partitions I start my first patition at cylinder 1. If I use sfdisk to view these partitions it states that the first partition statrs at 0+. If I use sfdisk to create the partitions starting the first partition at cylinder 1, fdisk shows that my first partition starts at cylinder 2. By looking at the results that the two partitioning utilities give the partitions overlap by one cylinder. This seems to be consistant with the results we are seeing from Oracle. We have installed Oracle and created the tables spaces on the RAW devices. After Oracle is running for a while we get an error that our data has become corrupt. This will happen when data from one partition overlaps another. Is one of these utilities better at reporting the actual disk partitions? Is there some way I can create these partitions and not have them overlap? If more information is needed please let me know.. Thanks, Brian Correia MBInteractive 415.793.7888
Can you describe what you think is the problem exactly? The initial partition's offset shouldn't have anything to do with overlap between partitions on the same disk... My apologies for the former util-linux packager's unresponsiveness.
No answer in almost two years so assuming resolved