software files and datafiles - do they have to be near the root of the mount point?

I'll be installing Oracle 8.1.7EE on Solaris 2.8 SPARC. It's a dev box for only a few users, so I don't have performance concerns, and it already has other stuff running on it. Only one mount point has enough space, so I'll be putting both the software files and data files on it.

Something like
/aaa/bbb/app/oracle/.....

and
/aaa/bbb/oradata

Account oracle:dba will own /app (and all below it) and /oradata (and all below it) (account oracle's primary group is oinstall and secondary group is dba). All documentation says that if /aaa and /bbb are owned by root this should not be a problem.

However, a newsgroup posting I ran into said it had errors and they were forced to change /uo1's owner from root to oracle (oracle was installed on this mount point: /uo1/oracle).

Anybody experienced success with what I'm trying? Failure?

Thanks very much. Received on Sun Jun 03 2001 - 15:57:24 CDT