From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Sun Sep 4 11:23:27 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j84GNRtM025072 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:23:27 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j84GNNIP025063 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:23:23 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 172441E8D88; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:23:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18932-10; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:23:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 9270B1E8D02; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:23:21 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fAZ9ia6CvEAfTqoOypyWTJxCpCQ41+ExiK0RLKAdgBIqp+6TE7oYukycVZOdlWs9wN3NVCq+okOm6SF5LjcnXPjG6xE1qbt4wKGiu407gNo9ly4vkW/3tZazA7LYsZvg1Rhti8jXSFMkpPbSWC5EWMTvT5OsYuimPXbEowDW8iw= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 17:21:27 +0100 From: Jared Still To: hkchital@singnet.com.sg Subject: Re: File exists error message with REUSE option Cc: dba.orcl@gmail.com, oracle-l In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050904114216.01f990e0@pop.singnet.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050904114216.01f990e0@pop.singnet.com.sg> X-archive-position: 24995 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: jkstill@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: jkstill@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-mailscan-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-mailscan-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 On 9/4/05, Hemant K Chitale wrote: > > If you specify SIZE 50M, the existing file MUST be 50M in size. That may be version/platform dependent, as it worked fine with 9.2.0.6 on Linux : check the docs. 1* create temporary tablespace temptest tempfile '/u01/oradata/dv03/temptest01.dbf' size 10m 09:19:01 SQL> / Tablespace created. >From shell: 0:1-::oracle-/dev/pts/20 > touch temptest02.dbf SQL> alter tablespace temptest add tempfile '/u01/oradata/dv03/temptest02.dbf' size 10m reuse; Tablespace altered. >From shell: :oracle-/dev/pts/20 > ls -l temptest02.dbf -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 10493952 Sep 4 09:20 temptest02.dbf -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l