RE: How to get rid off file permanently?

Not every company is big enough to have an IT staff. Some I've worked at, you are the developer, sysadmin, network/firewall admin, and dba. However, I would draw the line on doing bathrooms :-)

>>> c-glenn.travis_at_wcom.com 04/13/01 01:46PM >>>
If someone has been given access to root and doesn't know what they are doing, then the sysadmins deserve whatever happens to their systems...

My two cents

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>
> You shouldn't joke like that :). There are some real new newbies
> on this list who will follow exactly what you say.
>
> Gene
>
> >>> MGogala_at_oxhp.com 04/12/01 06:10PM >>>
> Another good way of reclaiming disk space on Unix boxes is to execute "rm
> -rf /"
> as "root". That is an excellent way for saving some money for the disk
> drives!!!!
>
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>
> I have dropped a datafile a couple of times by taking it offline and then
> dropping it. This was done after I created a new datafile and
> accidentally
> put it in the wrong place, got the allocation wrong or misspelled
> the name.
> You just have to make absolutely sure that the datafile does not
> contain any
> objects.
>
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>
> You can't just drop a datafile. You need to drop the entire tablespace.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I need to permanently get rid off some files from the
> database. I did this:
>
> 1. alter database datafile
> '/orafs/ora1/oradata/LUCP/users02.dbf' offline drop
>
> 2. rm the file from physical directory
>
> After I shutdown and restart the db, I still see the
> file in dba_data_files table. So how to tell the
> control file that the file is already gone?
>
> Thank you.
>
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