Any caveats about droping/recreating temp tablespce?

I've got a 7.3.4.5.0 instance on HP-UX 10.20 that's been workign great fro years.

Now, some maintenance scripts are failing. Doing a little debuging reveals:

1. The tsaks are failing to allocate space in teh TEMP tablespace.
2. This tablespcae is very fragmented.

I shut down all of the applications accessing thsi dtabase, stoped it and restarted it. Then I did an "alter tablespace temp coalesce", but it's still pretty fragmented.

I'm considering droping and recreating the TEMP tablespace (it's just one 250M file).

I'm concerned about whether I will be able to do this though, since it seems liely that some system level functions may be using this tablespace.

Any caveats, or sugestions about my plan?

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