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

I'm (slowly) getting used to systemd. I've even written a few of my own (simple) services, and that went ok....

I'm sure they'll change it again any day now.... :-)

-Mark

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:03 AM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> http://www.orawin.info
>

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