Re: best way to partition for installing oracle

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> If you were talking about 2 disks and the data was at all important to you
> I'd go for mirroring and still have a single 18gb volume. If you had 6 disks
> the recommendation would be different again. You can buy a very effective
> IDE Raid controller for under GBP100.
>
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> Niall Litchfield
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> "Danny" <d.stolle_at_chello.nl> wrote in message
> news:%xUx9.244590$Mf5.11686759_at_Flipper...
> > But if we were talking about 2x18GB harddrive; what would you recommend
> me.
> > I can provide you with more technical detail if you want to.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> >
> > "Daniel Morgan" <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
> > news:3DC7061E.F3EC4EED_at_exesolutions.com...
> > > Danny wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > i need a lot of information on what is the best way to set up the
> > harddisk
> > > > for installing an oracle server.
> > > > the installation will be done on a Windows NT Server 4.0 Stand Alone
> > server;
> > > > the amount of diskspace is 18 GB (not much but our company isn't that
> > big).
> > > > no Raid controller, just a straight forward IDE harddrive.
> > > >
> > > > if i want to partition it this way, can you tell me of it is
> > recommendeble?
> > > >
> > > > one primairy partitioning NTFS formatted size: 2048 MB for the
> operating
> > > > system.
> > > > the rest is extended; as for the logical drives: 2 logical drives: the
> > first
> > > > NTFS formatted size 2048 for the Swapfile, the rest of the logical
> drive
> > is
> > > > for the installation of the Oracle runtime and datafiles. or is it
> best
> > > > having separate partitions for the Oracle runtime and datafiles? Or do
> I
> > > > have to set up stripe-set?
> > > >
> > > > i know the OTN.ORACLE.COM site having the documentation; and having
> the
> > > > installation guide for installing Oracle, but i would like the best
> way
> > of
> > > > setting up the partitioning.
> > > >
> > > > Danny
> > >
> > > If you are talking about a single physical disk it doesn't matter what
> you
> > do.
> > > Partitioning in Windows is meaningless without multiple disks, RAID,
> > striping,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > Daniel Morgan
> > >
> >
> >

Exactly.

It is better to go for a larger number of small disks rather than one large disk. There is a lot of information related to this at http://otn.oracle.com search under "RAID" among other key words.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Nov 06 2002 - 10:11:24 CST