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.
>
> Any ideas on what could be wrong ?
> Thanks.
>
> Atif Khan
> aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu

Had the same problem on SCO Open Server 5.0 with a 3.5G partition. Oracle has a bug in the install script "server/orainst/owsins.sh" when it calculates free space. For drives with more than 2G of free space, actually 2^31 bytes, the quick fix is to REDUCE the free space to less than 2G before install. Just copy any junk that will fill up the space and you may remove it after the install.

Hope it works for you! Received on Thu Jul 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST