Re: Moving datafiles, freeing space

Chuck wrote:

> After moving an oracle datafile, it sometimes takes hours or even days for
> the space to become free in the filesystem that the datafile was moved
> from. Why is this? Is there a way force Oracle to release this space
> without restarting the instance?
>
> Platform AIX 4.3, Oracle 8.1.7.4

Discuss it with your IBM rep.

Then upgrade to 5L.

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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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