Re: Oracle install says not enough space on 4GB drive

Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
>
> I am using Solaris x86 and have recently downloaded the trial
> version of Oracle from their home page. When tried to install
> Oracle looks at my hard drive and says there isn't enough
> hard disk space under /opt for me to install oracle under
> /opt/oracle7
>
> I think Oracle's not using a very good way of checking free disk
> space. As my current df -k gives me the following :
>
> # df -k
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 192423 15973 157210 10% /
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 481083 324680 108303 75% /usr
> /proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
> fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 3076641 1191475 1577506 44% /opt
> swap 213556 3100 210456 2% /tmp
>
> When I tried to install Oracle opt was only 15% full. After
> Oracle install script said there was not enough free space I
> copied over more than 1GB of junk under opt to see if it would
> go there and sure enough , no problems. There is still more much
> more than enough space available in there but Oracle wouldn't
> install. Interesting this is, Oracle will install itself under
> the root partition /oracle7 happily, but I dont want it to go
> there.
>
Thats a weird one.
Maybe you should run a truss and see what is happening, otherwise you could try soft link /junk to /opt/oracle then once the install is done edit $ORACLE_HOME to be /opt/oracle which would be set in /var/opt/oracle/oratab

Peter Marelas Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST