AHA!I was going to go with 2000M so that's beautiful, 2001M would work perfectly without going over. I don't mind "wasting" less than a meg.
I love the logic everyone here at work has. "disk is cheap", don't worry about it. Except every time I ask for more disk, I hear "it's too expensive" Rachel --- "Fink, Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you going with 2048M or the traditional 2000m? > A quick & dirty way to not waste the space is to use 2001m or 2041m. > You > 'waste' a little space, but not much. > > Dan Fink > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:33 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Okay, I'm about to create some locally managed tablespaces for some > large partitioned tables. I plan on making each datafile 2GB, with an > extent of 20M. > > What I've done other times when I use LMTs is add 64K to the file > size, > for the bitmap header, so that I don't waste most of an extent. But > in > those cases, the datafile size has been less than 2GB. > > We will be on Solaris 2.8, I know that the OS can handle files larger > than 2GB but it makes me nervous to do this. > > I hate to waste most of 20M just for the bitmap header. > > Is my thinking way off? If you've been doing this sort of sizing > (it's > a data warehouse, yes), what have you done? > > thanks! > > Rachel > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Rachel Carmichael > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Fink, Dan > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
