Oracle Database Discussions

Hi ,

I am trying to install Oracle 11g R2 on RHEL6 using VM Ware workstation. I have gone through the all the preinstallion checks and now want to create the directories to hold the oracle software.

My UNIX box has only one primary partition which is the root partition(/).

Now the Oracle documentation on installing LInux say the following commands need to be executed.

# mkdir -p /mount_point/app/

# chown -R oracle:oinstall /mount_point/app/

# chmod -R 775 /mount_point/app/

For example:

# mkdir -p /u01/app/  
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app/ 
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app/  

What I want to know is which of the following should I do regarding this

a) Create a new partition, make a new file system and then mount it on the /u01 directory

or

b) Create a directory /u01 in the root(/) directory using mkdir and simply go ahead with the installation without making any extra partition or file system.

Thanks.