ok ..

having 2 Hard disks of size 250GB and 200GB, so what i need to do is

1. While doing installation of OS need to create 2 partitions under Device "Hard Drives " along with
others which are required,
e.g. Device Mount Point Type Size
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext3 102 MB
/dev/sdb2 / ext3 51200 MB
/dev/sdb3 / ext3 307200 MB

2. After completion of OS installation will create 2 Directories at root,
$ mkdir /u01
$ mount /dev/sdb2 /u01

$mkdir /u02
$ mount /dev/sdb3 /u02

3. After that will start using that mount points like /u01 for storing Setup files e.g. /u01/StageR12/ and
/u02 for Oracle EBS R12 installation e.g. /u02/OraApps/

m i on right path?
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Helpful Answer6. Re: How to create Mount Point in Linux

BillyVerreynne 23-Mar-2011 05:58 (in response to PriyankaPawar)
You're on the right path.

Keep in mind though what you need partition wise just for o/s install. You should have at least 3 partitions:
- a ?? GB partition for the / (root) mount (the size depends on what you will install and how much space you
will need for running that s/w)
- a 128MB or larger partition for the /boot mount
- a ?? GB partition as swap space mount (typically rule of thumb is 2x RAM for 4GB and lower, else around
25% of total RAM)

I would not create separate partitions for the old-style +/u01+ mount points for Oracle. That part of the OFA
(Oracle Flexible Architecture) standards are old and pre-ASM and pre- automated Oracle managed data files.

You need space for installing an Oracle Home. I do not see the need for a dedicated mount point for that. I use
the root file system.

You need space for the actual database. If you use Oracle ASM, then I would create raw partitions (across disks)
to be used for database storage. These will not be mounted or formatted. Instead these will be assigned to an
ASM diskgroup (and striped by default) and used for database storage.

If you do not use ASM, then you need a cooked file system for storage of database file. In that case separate
mount point(s) make sense. Also, it makes sense not to manually apply the old OFA standards, but instead use
Oracle managed database files. In that case you need a single mount point (e.g.<i>/oracledb</i>) - and set that
as the base directory for Oracle to use for the database. Oracle will create an OFA compliant database directory
tree and files under that base directory/mount point.

Keep in mind that the more mount points you have for the database, the more difficult your job becomes to
manage storage. The easiest is a single mount point for the database and using Oracle to manage
the OFA compliant side for you on that mount point.

Also, you cannot and should not attempt some kind of manual striping layout of the database across multiple
mountpoints. This may have made some sense back 10+ years ago. It no longer does.
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7. Re: How to create Mount Point in Linux

PriyankaPawar 23-Mar-2011 06:23 (in response to BillyVerreynne)
okay... yes actually there is no need to create two mount points here like /u01 and /u02. I can create directory as
/u01 at root level and store my setup files there too no issues.

But as far as Oracle EBS installation is concern I m not doing it manually so definitely Oracle will use OFA
structure for managing Directory structure and installation of software, the reason behind creation of separate
mount point is to provide Base Directory for further installation procedure.

What do you suggest, can i assign total space required for setup files and Software installation to root directory
and after that instead of creating separate mount points just to create two directories as /u01 and /u02 and
proceed with my work ?
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8. Re: How to create Mount Point in Linux

BillyVerreynne 23-Mar-2011 08:22 (in response to PriyankaPawar)
Cannot comment on EBS - have never installed it.

Our complete end-to-end application and business layers are inside the database as PL/SQL code. So the app
and business layer scales with the database. And as we use RAC, we leverage the scalability, high availability
and redundancy features that comes with the database layer, for the app and business layers too. A lot more
flexible and significant simpler and more elegant than separating these layers into separate s/w stacks and then
separating these over (slow) hardware boundaries - dealing with increased licensing and h/w costs, dealing with
multiple different languages for development, having to troubleshoot and administer several s/w stacks, etc. etc.

In our case the only external moving part is standard Apache. So no need for EBS.. nor the slightest hint of
desire to install it either. :-)
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9. Re: How to create Mount Point in Linux

nop 23-Mar-2011 10:20 (in response to PriyankaPawar)
I'd say it depends on the size of your root partition. What is your output of "df -h" command? If root is too small
to store several GB of data, then you will either need to resize your root partiton, or mount another disk into i.e.
/u01. It may also work to create a symlink and have /u01 point to a directory on another existing disks, e.g. ln -s
/big_disk/u01 /u01

Edited by: Dude on Mar 23, 2011 3:17 AM
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