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Do I have to create /tmp as a separate partition on RHEL?

724034Sep 23 2009 — edited Sep 24 2009

To install Oracle 11gR2 on Red Hat Linux 5.x:

Can I just use /tmp directory that sits as part of / partition OR do I have to create /tmp as a separate partition?
The manual says: df -k /tmp
Obviously, if /tmp is not a separate partition, this command will only show usage info of / partition, because /tmp is part of it.

It is ridiculous that the Oracle manual insists on "df -k /tmp" because on most modern Linux systems with huge disk drives with LVM2, /tmp is not created as a separate partition (volume). I also heard that Oracle installer fails if /tmp is not a separate partition. Why is that?

Thanks for your help

This post has been answered by Kamran Agayev A. on Sep 23 2009

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