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Before we can install the Oracle database software for the first time, we need to plan our disk layout strategy. This chapter will start by discussing Oracle’s Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA) and then give some general guidelines regarding where to create your database on disk.

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Peasland, B. (2019). Disk Layouts. In: Oracle DBA Mentor. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4321-3_4

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