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RE: EMC Not Releasing Space

From: HAWKINS, JAMES W [IT/1000] <james.w.hawkins_at_pharmacia.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:01:24 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.003E9F94.20020108104014@fatcity.com>

Walter,

We had the same exact problem on our SAP installation running on EMC Symmetrix. The space would not be release until the database was bounced. We never did find a work-around.

Jim



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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 12:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi,

Just curious if anyone has any experience with an EMC Symmetrix not releasing the space for a deleted datafile. If so, is there a solution or work-around?

Yesterday, we took a tablespace offline, dropped it and then deleted the associated datafile. The file was 1G in size and today the space has still not been released as indicated by 'df -k'. According to another DBA here, they have seen this in the past and said bouncing the DB remedied the problem.

It sounds like the inodes are still in use by Oracle but I can't imagine why. I've worked with Symmetrix systems before and have never experienced this behavior. We are running 8.1.7.2 (64bit) on Solaris 2.8. Any suggestions?

As always, your feedback is appreciated.

-w



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