<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2653.12"> <TITLE>How to create raw datafile.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi Can someone send a list on how to create raw datafile in Linux? We are currently creating a database (oracle 9r2) using raw datafile and we have done so (last few steps was mknod and permission) but still encounter this error. CREATE DATABASE "cmgzse" * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01501: CREATE DATABASE failed ORA-00301: error in adding log file '/dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a' - file cannot be created ORA-27041: unable to open file Linux Error: 19: No such device Additional information: 1 We can list the files and permission is set already to oracle:dba > ls -ltra rmgzse_log_01a crw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 162, 14 May 12 11:29 rmgzse_log_01a The mknod command we do: > mknod /dev/oriole2vg00/rmgzse_log_01a c 162 8 Did we miss something??...Guess with the list we can drop and recreate our existing one and try to create again BTW, we are using Linux X86 RHEL2 32bit Thanks a lot in advance... Cheers May. </BODY> </HTML>