When I installed RH 8.0, I went with the default disk setup. I have approx. 50 gig of disk space and the OS is the only think on my system. Here's my problem. When I try to 'gunzip' Oracle 9i disk 1(approx 541,000 kb), I get an error that I do not have enough space on disk. Does anyone know what I might be missing here?

where are you trying to gunzip it? what partition.

i've seen the error before, can't quite remember my remidy. so we'll work together on it.

another question, are you trying to zip it up or open it up?

I have created a dir under /home called Oracle9i. Also, I used Adaptec cd Creator 4 to burn the cd's if that helps.

do me a favor, go to your console and

df -lh

and put the results back here.

use gnome-toaster for the burns. it's the best thing out there.

i had this issue before. the problem is with partitions. linux wont use any more space than you told it to allow in a certain partition. you may be able to use fdisk to re-partition but i've never used fdisk and i've never re-partitioned my drive after install. do what emetib said though and go ahead and post the output of:

df -lh

I did the df -lh and got the following:

/dev/hdb3 449M 197M 271M 42% /
/dev/hda1 99M 9.2M 84M 10% /boot
/dev/hdb2 14G 33M 13G 1% /home
none 188M 0 187M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 40G 2.0G 35G 6% /usr
/dev/hdb6 1004M 54M 899M 6% /var

So, as you can see I have enough space, but when I try to download from Oracle, I get an error telling me that I am out of disk space to delete some files and try again.

Not enough space under /tmp ( root partition ) maybe? Just a speculation.

looking at that, that is strange, you have 14 Gig on home and only 1% used
13Gig free. can you tell if unpacking the oracle cd is trying to unpack elsewhere on teh system?

it's not even getting to that point. When I am trying to download the .gz files from the OTN site, I am running out of disk space(at 69% of Disk1) in /usr/Oracle9i, which I have now augmented to 33Gig of free space through a new disk and a fresh re-install of the OS. I've also tried downloading it to my Window's system and then burning a cd with Adaptec and then cp the files to the /usr/Oracle9i directory. I do get the files cp'd, but when I uncompress them, I get an error about the crc compression format. Any help would be appreciated, as this is very frustrating.

I'd go with nxny's though. when you're downloading, the application (web browser? I'm assuming) is first putting the file in /tmp, and then copies it to the final location. I think that if you try using something like wget to retrieve the file directly, it won't use a temporary location (or you may be able to specify where the temp file is made).

last resort solution, if you reinstall the system again, just have 1 big
/ partiton, dont partition the disk , well you'll want a /boot and a /swap,
leave the rest as / , this is what i did, this may be bad advice, but it works for me and could possibly work for you too.....

any body else have any opinions on not partitioning the drive?

What will happen to all the directories like /usr, /home, and /var if I make it one big partition under / ?

they will still be there, they just wont have their own partition,

they will just be subdirectories on /

cool, I'll try that and let you know where I got. BTW, how much space should I alot for /boot and swap? I have 512 of ram.

as a regualr user you wont notice any difference at all basically,

as far as i know, the advantage to sepearate partitions comes when u need
to reinstall the OS or something and u might not want to reformat the /home
or something like that. There may be other advantages, but i have never
seen this come up as a hudge issue (havent looked for the issue either tho).
And if i ever reformat and i want to keep /home stuff, i just FTP it to another box on my LAN.