Recommended Partition Scheme for 11i / RH ES 3

Hi,
What's the recommended partitioning scheme for a RH ES3 and 11i install?
Regards,
Carlos

Hi, The basic scheme that I use is the following:
/ ....................... 2 GB
/tmp ................. 2 GB
/home ............... 500 MB
/var ................... 1 GB
/usr .................. 4 GB
swap ................ equal to ram size
prodappl............ 50 GB ---> Apps Tier for EBS 11i (COMMON_TOP, IAS_ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_HOME_806, APPL_TOP)
proddb ............. 10 GB ---> Oracle Home RBDMS for EBS 11i (ORACLE_HOME)
proddata01 ....... 40 GB ---> filesystem datafiles 1
proddata02 ........40 GB ---> filesystem datafiles 2

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silvrmn wrote:
unfortunately i am alternating them between computers.
is there a way to make it work or is the only solution to get two different drives and format them accordingly?
TM will most likely work fine with both computers if you partition the drive GUID. that's been the experience of most people who do it. but apple does recommend partitioning the TM drive GUID for backing up intel macs and APM for PPC ones.
using GUID is unlikely to create problems but it may.
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Recommended partition scheme

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Sorry if my English isn't perfect but it is not my main language, also sorry to bother with such a newbie question but this is the newbie forum after all.

beat wrote:
/ 20GB ext3
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Does this look good?
I see a lot of people also have a different partition for /boot (usually formatted as ext2), what are the advantages in doing so? Since I'm not going to multi-boot should I do it? How big should this partition be?
Also I'm a bit afraid of trying ext4, are there noticeable performance gains over ext3? I can't risk losing some data so I must be sure it is safe.
Looks fine but I'd use ext4 if I were you. Answers to your questions: a different /boot is good if you have multiple Linux partitions and you want to manually manage your grub menu.lst; you can add entries to chainload the native grub screens of each of the respective Linux root partitions. Honestly, if you only have one Linux root partition, there isn't a really big reason to have your own /boot in my opinion. My system has a Windows partition and three Linux partitions; my /boot is 20 megs (7 is used). There are noticeable performance gains over using ext3, yes. Google around and search these forums for details. Ext4 is safe so long as the software you're using on it is well written. You can feel pretty comfortable using it; it will become the defacto workstation filesystem in the near future (my opinion). The 2.6.30 kernel is rumored to have a number of tweaks to make ext4 'safer' for some poorly coded software.
Sorry the above are so general and not referenced, I'm in a rush right now. Maybe others can elaborate to totally berate me
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I have a G4 mini and an Intel Macbook and one USB harddrive to back them up with time machine. I think I'll connect the drive to the mini and share the drive so I can back up the Macbook.
Anyway, I was reading:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306932
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Recommended partition layout for Ubuntu/Arch dual boot?

I just got a new (old) laptop, and my plan is to dual-boot Arch and Xubuntu. The Xubuntu is mostly to hold me over so I have a stable system while I'm setting Arch up/if I mess up Arch somehow/for testing. It has a new 160GB (149.05 GiB) drive, and my plan is to allocate roughly 35 GiB each for the Xubuntu and Arch / partitions, and a roughly 80 GiB partition for common data (that is, most of my home directory folders will be symlinks to that partition - e.g. ~/code will link to /common/code*).
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A) Probably -- partitioning is always a relative subject
B) no...and it never did
C) Whatever you prefer.
Basic tips :
Having a separate /home helps in re-installing(if you ever have to) and it saves your config files.
Having a separate /var allows you to put a different filesystem on it which may be more suitable to the type of files in /var
You can use a separate /boot, if you are going to use the same /boot for both Xubuntu and Arch. That way 1 partition handles both. If not, I think there is no need to create a separate partition. If you do create one and plan to use it for Xubuntu and Arch, make sure that you install a filesystem that is acceptable to both distros. For eg. Arch grub is patched so it can read from ext4. I do not know if Xubuntu's grub is patched or not.
Last edited by Inxsible (2010-06-24 03:55:20)

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I'm about to install those 2 OSs on a new PC.
I plan to use PMagic to partition the disk, then install Win 7 (ult 64b) and finally-Arch 64b.
I've read that Win7 actually uses TWO partitions a (relative small) boot partition and a "main" partition.
My questions:
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2. If 2, what size should the Win 7 boot partition be (I've thought about 50 MB)?
3. If 2, How can I "tell" Win 7 during install to use those two existing partitions rather than creating a new win-boot partition?
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Last edited by mibadt (2010-09-12 07:49:10)

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I am using a wd 500gb ext hdd and now i am about to reformat my hdd to one partition hfs+j and now i need to know, reformat it to apple partition map, master boot record, or guid partition?
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Ala.

Hi Ala,
GPT (GUID Partition Table) and MacOS Extended (Journaled) are the standard (normal) settings to be used for external harddisks in conjunction with Intel-based Macs like your MacBook.
Regards
Stefan

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I am planning to do a fresh install of OEL to use as Oracle R12 test bed with Vision demo database.
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If you need advice about the setup of Oracle EBS you better post your question in the appropriate Oracle EBS forum. Regarding the OS and general database configuration, my previous response still applies.
Edited by: Dude on Oct 1, 2012 4:23 PM

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Using ptsearchserver 10.3.0. The existing Portal Search Server index is Clustered over two nodes each exceeding over 32 Gb in size. This large size, contribues to instability in the
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Allocation of 140GB spare allocated disk space, was requested and mounted
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Really depending on what you are going to store on D and E you would need to decide what the paritition size should be since there is not a recommend partition size for thos parititions these are customizable.
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If i were you.... 512mb swap and the rest is root / (ext4 or something). Nothing more. I think that its the best to do.
ps. lxde should work fine in your pc...:cool:
Last edited by TigTex (2009-05-05 22:24:38)

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Thanks for the input. I've just got the one partition, and recently had to set up that partition again because of a fairly severe crash.
In Disk Utility - Partition - Options, there are three partition options:
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