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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.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Mon Aug 02 2004 - 21:16:24 CDT