On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com>wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:34:38 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > > I was hunting for the disk hog using the curses based ncdu utility. I > > found a large tar file which could be deleted without issue. It was in > > an oracle production directory area. Due to a bug in ncdu, ( > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/? > func=detail&aid=2829950&group_id=200175&atid=972449) > > it didn't delete the highlighted item, but the one next to it, which was > > the oracle production database. Recovery was easy to do from snapshot > > files from the database. > > I don't think that is the full story. Oracle databases do not consist of > a single file; there are many. Control files, tablespace files, undo > segments, redo logs, etc, etc. And if the database is properly organised, > loss of a single file should not present any problem at all. > > It was a directory which was deleted by the bug in ncdu.
