They are "sparse" ie the space is not allocated until
required. On some OS's you can workaround it by
copying the file elsewhere and then copying it back.
hth
connor
- Guang Mei <zlmei_at_hotmail.com> wrote: > Oracle
8173 on Solaris 2.8:
>
> bash-2.03$ pwd
> /oracle/u02/oradata/YPD
>
> bash-2.03$ df -k|grep /oracle/u02
> /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 70592505 45549803 22924927
> 67% /oracle/u02
>
> bash-2.03$ ls -l templmt*
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2097160192 Dec 19
> 20:40 templmt01.dbf
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2097160192 Dec 19
> 20:27 templmt02.dbf
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2097160192 Dec 19
> 20:27 templmt03.dbf
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2097160192 Dec 19
> 20:27 templmt04.dbf
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 2097160192 Dec 19
> 20:27 templmt05.dbf
>
> bash-2.03$ rm templmt*
>
> bash-2.03$ df -k|grep /oracle/u02
> /dev/dsk/c1t2d0s0 70592505 44244651 24230079
> 65% /oracle/u02
>
> I thought I should get 10GB (2097160192 x 5) back,
> but instead I got only
> 1.3MB ( 24230079 - 22924927) released. Could
> someone explain? BTW, when I
> created the temp files (templmt0[1-5]) for
> locally-managed temp tablespace,
> I found they were created extremely fast, so I
> suspected that not real disk
> space were allocated. But the "ls -l" command still
> showed 10GB were
> allocated.
>
> TIA.
>
> Guang Mei
>
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