Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newspump.sol.net!wn1feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.204!attbi_feed4!attbi.com!rwcrnsc54.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Jim Kennedy" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: Subject: Re: Please help: Partitions Lines: 25 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: jmaP7-406833-Px-72561@rwcrnsc54 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: rwcrnsc54 1007498323 jmaP7-406833-Px-72561@rwcrnsc54 (Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:38:43 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:38:43 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:38:43 GMT Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:127147 X-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 14:57:03 MST (news.easynews.com) You have not gained much by partitioning the two drives into to partitions. The IO limitations will still be there regardless of whether drive 1 is just C or C and D. Jim "dsmcd" wrote in message news:xqaP7.162$Ui5.296681@news.uswest.net... > Hello... > > I plan on having two sets of raid mirrored harddrives. Each drive will > have two partitions, (drive #1 will have C and D, and drive #2 will > have E and F.) > > From a Recovery standpoint - what's the best partition for the Oracle > 8.1.7 program to be on? I know the Win2k-server will be on C, and all > my tablespaces will be on E. I'll have one set of Archived Redo Logs > and Control Files on E, F, and D. Cold Backups using backup exec. > > Is there a RECOVERY advantage to have the Oracle program installed on > D? or E? > > Thx, > D. >