Not an answer to your question but 8.1.5 has been desupported and 8.1.6 will
be in October of this year. If at all possible install 8.1.7 or when ever
you try to get help from oracle you will hear that the problem was fixed in
the later version or in a patch set that does not apply to your database
Robert P. McGraw, Jr. <robert_mcgraw_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3AF02247.A3A63B34_at_yahoo.com...
> I am NOT an Oracle DBA but have been asked to install oracle 8.1.5 or a
> Sun Solaris 4500 and a A1000 Disk Array. Another real DBA will do the
> actually creation of the data base.
>
> I have made 1 big RAID 5 disk on the A1000 for the data bases.
>
> I have been told that I should use format to create the /u01
> /u02..../u06 partions for the DB. My questions is why or why not make
> directories like /export/oracle/u01....export/oracle/u06 and then link
> these to /u01 /u02.../u06. It seems that having on big LUN and having
> the links give more room for the db to expand. If I had individual
> partitions then I am limited to the space in each partition.
>
> Can someone explain the pros or cons of both ways.
>
> Thanks
>
> Robert
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Received on Thu May 03 2001 - 13:45:45 CDT
