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Re: Oracle Myths

From: Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:46:37 GMT
Message-ID: <3D07A516.7055090C@exesolutions.com>


Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> You can free up another 400MB by going to
> $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates
> and deleting the two compressed sample
> databases (assuming you build your own
> thereafter).
>
> And then there's $ORACLE_HOME/bin where
> you can delete everything that ends in 0 (zero)
> or O (capital o) - as these are the previous
> versions of the executables pre-build. That
> should save another 200MB or more.
>
> I once stripped the 700 MB of a 7.3 install down
> to about 32MB at one site by deleting all the
> redundant material from the production system.
> (OPS - so there were 16 copies - which gave
> us another 8GB when space wasn't quite so
> cheap as it is now). I do wish Oracle Corp.
> would at least list which executables and libraries
> were relevant to which optional components of
> the software.
>
> --
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
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>
> Daniel Morgan wrote in message <3D07673C.8069035C_at_exesolutions.com>...
> >I freed up more than 800MB after a 9i install be deleting everything
> >with the following extensions:
> >.html
> >.doc
> >.pdf
> >.ico
> >.wav
> >.avi
> >

Thanks. I've dropped a lot ... but never been that brave.

Maybe we could get someone to publish a book titled "Oracle Essentials" that would just list what is actually ... essential.

Thanks again.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed Jun 12 2002 - 14:46:37 CDT

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