Re: Installing Oracle 19c (19.7) on Oracle Linux 8.2......

Ha! It's systemd that winds me up irrationally.

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:55 AM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> I know this is one of those things, like using ip instead of ifconfig,
> that once I start using I'll never go back, but the activation energy to
> force myself to override decades of habit is often too much.
>
> It's funny how I'm so into change in Oracle, but for other things I'm a
> stubborn old goat.
>
> CHeers
>
> Tim...
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:50 PM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not a huge amount to be honest, I'm not a fan of the old-style sending
>> characters to disk. Our scripts now use code like the line below to create
>> a new aligned GPT partition that essentially fills the disk. Just feels
>> easier to understand than the fdisk alternative.
>>
>>
>> parted -s -a optimal "$disk" mklabel gpt -- mkpart primary ext4 1MiB -2048s
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:29 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm curious. I still use fdisk because I'm lazy I guess. Apart from the
>>> 2TB limit for fdisk, is there anything else that makes parted better than
>>> fdisk?
>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Niall Litchfield
>> Oracle DBA
>> http://www.orawin.info
>>
>

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