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block size

subodhbagade — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:08:48 GMT

Hi,

Whenever i am creating any new directory (Mount point) i.e

(1)#mkdir /oracle/PRD/sapdata5_new
and on long listing

(2) #cd /oracle/PRd
# ls -l

it show byte size 96, that is

drwxr-xr-x 37 oraprd dba 96 Feb 13 11:14 sapdata5_new

(3)How i can create same dir with 8192 byte size, so that SAP (oracle )application will support it ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
subodh

Re: block size

David Bellamy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:30:57 GMT

subodh I don't think you create a mount point with a specific block size that is done at the file system level. do a man on newfs or newfs_vxfs and that should give you and idea

Re: block size

Dennis Handly — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:48:30 GMT

>(3)How i can create same dir with 8192 byte size, so that SAP (oracle) application will support it?

No application has any business caring about the directory size. The 92 bytes you see is how much space is allocated in the "empty" directory sapdata5_new. As you fill it up, it will grow and grow.

Re: block size

Pete Randall — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:56:21 GMT

It depends on the contents - i.e. the number of files contained in the directory.

Pete