Christoph Jahn

Sometimes people wonder why Oracle DB (both 10g and 11g) will not start after installation on Linux/Unix. In many cases the simple reason is the content of /etc/oratab. For each database it contains a line in the format $ORACLE_SID:$ORACLE_HOME:START_DB_FLAG:The last column is set to “N” by default. Just change it to “Y” and run $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart [...]

When you are running Linux (or any other Unix-like OS) on a mobile computer, you may have a bit of a problem with mounting shares from a server. On a normal PC with a fixed connection to the server, you would simply add the appropriate entries to /etc/fstab and have them mounted automatically during startup. [...]

The file system type for the mount command has been changed from smbfs to cifs. So using “-t smbfs” will not work any more. Instead you need to enter something like this:
mount -t cifs -o username=user[,uid=500,gid=500] //machine/share[/path] /mountpoint
There seems to be a documentation bug in the man pages, because they still mention smbfs.