RE: High disk capacity dangers

It should be noted that how tempfiles are allocated is platform dependent.

• Mark D Powell --

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Radoulov, Dimitre Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:36 AM
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Subject: Re: High disk capacity dangers

> Even if this theory was correct for regular files, it would have been
> invalid for Oracle DataFiles which are *precreated* (ie all disk
> blocks are preallocated

Yes for datafiles, no for tempfiles, they are sparse.

Regards
Dimitre

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