Re: File System question

Doh!

Just noticed a mistake with this, should read;

mv $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates /sparedisk/oracle ln -s /sparedisk/oracle/templates $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates

KevJohnP wrote:
> Hi Jay
>
> Being Unix one thing you could consider if you have disk available
> elsewhere is moving a directory (or individual files) to another file
> system and creating a symbolic link to point there.
>
> I would exercise caution as to what to move and not go mad sym linking
> all kinds of stuff, however one common candidate is the 'canned'
> databases that come with Oracle and are used to create new databases
> when using the assistants. On my Linux system these take up about
> 500MB. As an example, to move these and sym link to them;
>
> mv $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates /sparedisk/oracle
> ln -s /sparedisk/oracle/assistants $ORACLE_HOME/assistants/dbca/templates
>
> HTH
>
> KJP
>
> Jay wrote:
>

>> I have 480 blocks of space left on a File System.  On this file system
>> is an installation of Oracle DB.  I have been running out of space on
>> this particular file system.  I have removed some log files to free up
>> space, but this hasn't helped much at all.  I know I can
>> unmount/remount this file system to allocate more space, but I think I
>> will have to reinstall Oracle DB, which is not the ideal choice.  I
>> will most likely reduce the size of database files (dbf files) to free
>> up additional space. Other than error messages indicating that the
>> file system has no free space, what other issues will I encounter if
>> significant amount of space is not freed up?
>>
>> On a side note, I do have significant amount of space on other file
>> systems on this Uniware 2.X box.