Re: drop tablespace, delete datafiles, but space not returned?

From: Oradba Linux <oradba_linux_at_attbi.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:02:27 GMT
Message-ID: <pan.2003.11.24.19.03.32.530839@attbi.com>

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:07:44 +0000, yls177 wrote:

> i am on sap. and drop a tablespace through sapdba.
>
> SAPDBA: ORACLE has obviously not released the filesystem space of
> 17811928 K(Before: 5453816 K, Now: 5453828 K, 100 K reserve for log
> info, ...).This sluggish behavior is well known. It will take a few
> minutes or a DB reboot to release all the space!
>
> and i checked my vg, lv... the space did not increase.
>
> i need to do a restart of oracle to get back the used space?

I have seen this happen sometimes . It is with Unix and open files . Sometimes when you delete a file from Unix with some process still writing to it , the space does not get released . It has something to do with inodes . Received on Mon Nov 24 2003 - 13:02:27 CST