Re: Phantom disk space

I have had a problem much like this on an HPUX 9.01 box. I deleted all the oracle datafiles, but the system still reported my disk as 85% filled.

I thought it a bug in the HpUX 9.01 kernel.

Rebooting the system restored the space....

Greg Tupper
gtupper_at_nosc.mil

Tim Antler (tantler_at_mdshealth.com) wrote:
: My company recent ran a HUGE job on our Oracle 7.2.2.1 server (running on
: a dual-processor AlphaServer 2100A) which updated a large number of columns
: in a large number of tables.
 

: The update died due to a table allocation problem. Instead of letting it
: back out of the rollback segments (it took 15 hours to get to the point of
: failure), we decided to kill Oracle and restore the database files from our
: last tape backup instead.
 

: When I was attempting to restore a particular JBOD filesystem, I
: discovered that there was not enough free space in the filesystem to do the
: restore. I checked and all files that I was going to restore were there
: and accounted for, but there was about 300 Mb more used space than the
: files on it occupied. I deleted all of the files I was attempting to
: restore and the filesystem still reported that it was 35% full.
 

: Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is it a Digital UNIX quirk or
: Oracle. We are running DU 3.2c. The backup/restore software is Polycenter
: Save/Restore that comes with DU.
 

: Thank you.
 

: --
: Tim Antler
: Technical Analyst - Systems
: MDS Health Group Limited
Received on Mon Nov 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CET