10.2.0.4 Patching failure question.

OS :- AIX 5L
DB :- 10.2.0.2
I was doing Patching from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4.
Before doing any patching i always take tar backup of binaries.
While doing Patching at some 30% i got error as below
/oracle/SID/102_64/rdbms/demo/aqxml.sbs (invalid file system control data detected)
I tried searching all over but couldnt find much.
After this thinking that its part of demo folder i ignored it and went ahead but
it started giving same error to all files which it was trying to copy. and OUI gave only option to stop installation.
cause was that there was OS corruption introduced on /oracle/SID Filesystem.
SA tried to unmount the filesystem which was not happening because there was corruption and it was not allowing to write anything on /oracle/SID. We rebooted the system. ran fsck and mounted back the /oracle/SID.
After this i moved the original binaries folder and untar the binaries backup in /oracle/SID.
DB came up properly using untarred binaries no issues.
But question is now i see there is some 300mb difference between size of moved old binaries folder and new untarred folder.
Old one which was 30% patched is 300mb more than untarred folder.
If i had not taken tar backup of binaries would i be still able to use same old binaries??
I mean is OUI that much intelligent to not to touch original binaries until copying is done or
Does it restores old binaries if new Patching fails?
Hope i have put it in proper words!!!!!!

Hi,
Welcome 2 Oracle Forums :)
I mean is OUI that much intelligent to not to touch original binaries until copying is done or Does it restores old binaries if new Patching fails?
No i don't think so. It will copy all the files in the $ORACLE_HOME, better check the Installation logfile of patchset.
It is highly recommended to take full backup of Database and $ORACLE_HOME before performing any upgrade.
Regards,
X A H E E R.

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