On 7/27/07, Randall R Schulz
On Friday 27 July 2007 17:41, Greg Freemyer wrote:
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You need to expand your imagination. The root directory on a production system should probably never be touched at all. It's best left to the base operating system itself.
Last time I worked with a Oracle database, I'm sure thats what they were doing. (I did not do the install, so maybe the person who did overrode the defaults.)
I don't doubt that Oracle (or MySQL or PostgreSQL, etc.) are flexible enough to do this, but that does not mean it's a good idea.
Per a very recent release of Oracle: Oracle(r) Database Installation Guide 10g Release 2 (10.2) for Linux x86 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/install.102/b15660/app_ofa.htm#... Oracle is still recommending the following mount points be used: /u01 /u02 /u03 /u04 Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-programming+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-programming+help@opensuse.org