Re: Sanity Check Please: Removing Datafiles after Dropping Tablespace?

The datafiles are not listed as part of the database because I dropped the tablespace already.

So now its just a matter cleaning the datafiles off the OS.

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 9:30 AM Guenadi Jilevski <gjilevski_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could you please look at :
> https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:515222144417%20
>
> ALTER DATABASE DATAFILE OFFLINE DROP..
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Guenadi Jilevski
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 2:21 PM Chris Taylor <
> christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Env :12.1.0.2 x86-64 Linux NON-RAC,NON-ASM
>>
>> As haste makes waste (or leaves waste as the case may be), I dropped a
>> tablespace as part of a scheduled maintenance. However, I neglected the
>> "INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES" portion of the drop command.
>>
>> So now I have a lot of datafiles left on the OS.
>>
>> I've confirmed that fuser doesn't show any PIDs touching the datafiles.
>>
>> I *think *I can drop the datafiles straight from the OS now on both the
>> primary and standby, but need a sanity check here if anyone knows something
>> different? I'm being careful here in case I've forgotten something.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>

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