Re: Help! Oracle ate my disk space!

Found the problem, in the folder Apache\Apache\logs there was a file error_log that was 11.2 GB!
This Oracle is something else, what good is a 11.7 GB error log? It would take a lifetime to read it., if not longer.

Ragnar

"Ragnar Midtskogen" <ragnarm_at_optonline.net> wrote in message news:6xSZ9.444193$FT6.88345197_at_news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net...
> Hello,
>
> I set up Oracle 9i Standard Edition on my laptop last night and the
> installation took about 13 GB! I had about 13 GB freee before I started
 and
> afterward I had about 1 MB. The Oracle tree holda about 13 GB, on my
 desktop
> the same install occupies 3 GB!
>
> The laptop, Dell Inspiron 8100 is running Windows XP Pro, the desktop, an
> IBM Netvista A60, is running Windows 2000 Pro
>
> On the laptop the installation stalled about halfway. I tried running
> deinstall but there were no programs to deinstall, so I just stopped all
> Oracle services and looked for any processes that might belong to Oracle
 but
> I did not find any. Then I deleted the whole Oracle tree. There was a
 file,
> cia.dll, that could not be deleted. I was able to move it and rename it,
> then I was able to delet it.
>
> I ran the installation again and it ran OK.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what happened?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I have not tried deinstalling yet, I will
> probably have to delete enough files that Windows will run before the
> deinstall program would work anyway.
>
> Is there any point in contacting Oracle about this?
>
> Any help on this would be appreciated,
>
> Ragnar
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 29 2003 - 16:49:21 CET