Changing Oracle Mount Point After Installation Is Completed.

[Former Member]

How easy is it to change an Oracle Mount Point once an SAP installation has been completed? Reason I am asking, is another Basis person believes it's easier to wipe the partition and reinstall.

[Former Member]

So what is the aim ?

Do you want to re-install SAP by wiping out the existing mount points/file systems ?

OS/Unix team knows it exactly how easy or difficult it is to wipe out the mount point, but the thing is - if we are ok with the fact the SAP/Oracle will not work after mount point removal then we should allow the unix team to do the unix things. As per duration, it is I think just 10min job for the Unix guy !

Thanks

[Former Member]

What I am asking is it easy to change the ORACLE mount point

We install SAP

Pause SAP Install for Oracle Installation

Finish SAP Install.

Now after a few weeks we want to change where ORACLE is mounted. Is it easy to change this?

[Former Member]

Hello,

Yes this is OK (for SAP/Oracle) and easy for unix team too. You please shut down SAP and Oracle completely and Unix expert can change the file system. But be careful that the exact mount point 'name' should remain intact. For e.g. '/oracle/SID' is a mount point and if you want to change the file system or mount this particular 'directory' onto a different filesystem/partition then the 'mount point name' i.e. 'oracle/SID' should remain same - as required by oracle/sap to run.

Thanks