Re: Installing Oracle 19c (19.7) on Oracle Linux 8.2......

Thanks for the feedback.

I know this is one of those things, like using ip instead of ifconfig, that once I start using I'll never go back, but the activation energy to force myself to override decades of habit is often too much.

It's funny how I'm so into change in Oracle, but for other things I'm a stubborn old goat.

CHeers

Tim...

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 7:50 PM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Not a huge amount to be honest, I'm not a fan of the old-style sending
> characters to disk. Our scripts now use code like the line below to create
> a new aligned GPT partition that essentially fills the disk. Just feels
> easier to understand than the fdisk alternative.
>
> parted -s -a optimal "$disk" mklabel gpt -- mkpart primary ext4 1MiB -2048s
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 5:29 PM Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm curious. I still use fdisk because I'm lazy I guess. Apart from the
>> 2TB limit for fdisk, is there anything else that makes parted better than
>> fdisk?
>>
>>>
>
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> Niall Litchfield
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