Extending TMP Space for Oracle Install

[Donald Osbourne]

Help!

I am out of /tmp space in the midst of an Oracle install on a production system, without JFS-Online.

Since I do not have the luxury of un-mounting the tmp file-system to extend it, I am seeking a safe work-around.

Thanks for the Help
Don

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi Donald

You can't extend it otherwise (i guess you know that)

Are you looking for somehow to configure oracle to use another filesystem to perform the install ?

Regards

Steve

[Tim Medford · Accepted solution]

Donald - You will have a very hard time finding enough space in /tmp for an Oracle install (unless your tmp is about 1gb in size).

The the .profile for Oracle, set a couple environment variables as such:

# For dbassist and installer
export TMPDIR=/scratch/tmp/
export TEMP=/scratch/tmp

"scratch" represents a filesystem with lots of room in this example.

Then logoff/logon as oracle and try again.

Regards,
Tim