Allocating raw disk space on Windows
You can configure raw disk space on Windows™ as a logical drive or physical drive.
About this task
To find the drive letter or disk number, run the Disk Administrator. If the drives must be striped (multiple physical disks combined into one logical disk), only logical drive specification would work.
You must be a member of the Informix-Admin group when you create a storage space or add a chunk. The raw disk space can be formatted or unformatted disk space.
To specify a logical drive:
Procedure
Results
To specify a physical drive
- If the disk partition has not been assigned a drive letter, specify the following value for ROOTDBS in the onconfig file: \\.\PhysicalDrive<number>
- To create a storage space or add a chunk, specify the physical
drive partition.
This example adds a chunk of 5000 KB on PhysicalDrive0, at an offset of 5200 KB, to dbspace dpspc3.
onspaces -a dbspc3 \\.\PhysicalDrive0 : -o 5200 -s 5000