On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:42:22AM +0000, Paul Jakma mentioned:
> one other thing... something i keep seeing, boxes with tonnes of /u???
> directories, where each /u??? is a mount point.. urggg... strangely
> these boxes usually have oracle installed.
That's an oracle thing. It assumes that it's databases are on a load of
different disks. All mounted as /u00 /u01 /u02 .. /u99.
Most admins are just too lazy to say "no. Use /usr/local/oracle/u00
instead".
Kate
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