An update, I discovered that the Oracle Agent (8i variety) was the culprit, as soon as I stopped it space usage on /orasw dropped from 99 percent to 27 percent. Patrice. -----Original Message----- From: Boivin, Patrice J [mailto:BoivinP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: May 26, 2004 9:48 AM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: A comment on oraInventory Importance: Low Our Unix admin discovered that in /orasw/app/oracle/OraInventory, we have a 168 byte file under 9 levels of directories. Each directory is 8k in size, do the math. It's not the only file like that. He said: "Why don't they just put all this info in an Oracle database??!! Or an Access database? It would take less space." LOL We have a huge discrepancy between what df -k tells us about volume free space and what du -k tells us about space used by files on the /orasw volume. Patrice. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------