Re: File System question

Hi Jay

Being Unix one thing you could consider if you have disk available elsewhere is moving a directory (or individual files) to another file system and creating a symbolic link to point there.

I would exercise caution as to what to move and not go mad sym linking all kinds of stuff, however one common candidate is the 'canned' databases that come with Oracle and are used to create new databases when using the assistants. On my Linux system these take up about 500MB. As an example, to move these and sym link to them;

mv $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates /sparedisk/oracle ln -s /sparedisk/oracle/assistants $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates

HTH KJP Jay wrote:

> I have 480 blocks of space left on a File System. On this file system
> is an installation of Oracle DB. I have been running out of space on
> this particular file system. I have removed some log files to free up
> space, but this hasn't helped much at all. I know I can
> unmount/remount this file system to allocate more space, but I think I
> will have to reinstall Oracle DB, which is not the ideal choice. I
> will most likely reduce the size of database files (dbf files) to free
> up additional space. Other than error messages indicating that the
> file system has no free space, what other issues will I encounter if
> significant amount of space is not freed up?
>
> On a side note, I do have significant amount of space on other file
> systems on this Uniware 2.X box.
Received on Tue Aug 19 2003 - 04:55:54 CDT