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Extend the boot device on OCI compute VM with Oracle Linux 9 I needed more space in my boot volume on a compute instance. The VM is using Oracle Linux 9. This involves three steps: Increase the boot volume from the cloud.oracle.com page Make the OS detect this change Grow the file system Increase the boot volume Log into your cloud account and find your compute instance from Compute ➡️ Instances ➡️ your instance from the list. In the menu on the left side called Resources click on the Boot volume link. Then click on the link for the boot volume. Then finally click the hot Edit button, and set the new volume size, and hit save. There is some information displayed along the way that may be useful. ...

Images by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Got too much data in the database? Offloading it to object storage is one option. Even better, get stuff in to the database and analyse it with SQL. Accessing OCI Object Storage from PL/SQL As mentioned in a previous post about OCI Object Storage I wanted to investigate how to access the OCI Object Storage from PL/SQL, in an Autonomous Database1. ...

Stuffing files away in the cloud might not be on your bucket list, but object storage in Oracle Cloud is quite useful in several situations. Storing files in OCI Object Storage Object storage can be used as you would use Amazon’s S3 through a special API provided in OCI. You can even store your RMAN database backups through a Swift API. But I will just upload and download a bunch of files. ...