[TriLUG] Disk cleanup

[David A. Cafaro]

Just wondering but by my count you listed 8.6GB worth of partitions out of 
a 30 GB drive.  What are you using the other 21.4 GB for?  You could just 
create a dedicated oracle partition out of this missing space 
(/oracle).  have you tried using fdisk to see where the missing space is?

At 12:57 PM 3/18/2002, you wrote:

>I have a RHL 7.2 system at home that has a 30GB drive partitioned as
>follows:
>
>/ 5 GB
>/boot 100MB
>/home 2GB
>swap 1.5 GB
>
>I want to install Oracle on this box, which in the past I have installed to
>/usr/local, only because this is where I learned to do so.
>Problem is there isn't enough free space left on /usr/local to install
>Oracle 9i, as my / partition only has 1.5 gig free, and Oracle will consume
>most of that. This presents me with two questions.
>
>1.) What the h@|| is taking up > #GB on my hard drive? I installed RHL 7.2
>and it's updated to the current kernel release from RH. Can I remove the
>older kernel packages safely? If so, do I need to do anything beyond
>uninstall the package? ( I use gnorpm for most of my dealings with this kind
>of stuff) I've already started going through the list of packages and
>uninstalling things I know I don't use, as I just want to get rid of as much
>crap as possible.
>
>2.) The few Oracle install I 've done in the past where to /usr/local.
>That's where the book I had said to do it, so I did. Would there be any
>concerns with creating the oracle user's home as /home/oracle and installing
>it there (plenty of free space to grow), instead of in /usr/local (no free
>space to grow) ?
>
>I basically am in a position where I need free space on a partition that
>doesn't have much, and I have another partition that has plenty of free
>space, but not where I need it.
>
>TIA
>
>
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