Someone else suggested that, I tried it and it worked. I had opened an SR on that as well and the analyst offered that suggestion as well. He also indicated it is not registered as a bug either. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -----Original Message----- From: D'Hooge Freek [mailto:Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:11 PM To: William Wagman; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Creating DB on partition > 2TB Can't you just hit ignore? I remember having used a database on a 2.7 TB partition (test setup) and I know I have seen this problem, but I don't remember creating the database by hand... regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator e-mail: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel. +32 (0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Wagman [wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 06 March 2008 22:30 To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Creating DB on partition > 2TB Greetings, I have installed Oracle 10.2.0.3.0 on a server running Centos 4, 2.6.9-67.0.4.Elsmp. This is a new server and installation. I am using the DBCA to create the database which initially will only be 2GB. The partition on which I am attempting to create the database has nearly 3TB of space and when I attempt to create the database dialogue box is presented with the message... You do not have enough free space You need 1845248KB You have -1570091008KB Oracle is telling me that the DBCA is unable to properly compute space on a partition > 2TB and suggests either creating the database manually, the scripts were created, or dividing the disk into partitions < 2TB. I haven't yet tried to create the database manually as I am concerned about whether or not if the DBCA gets confused with such a large partition that Oracle will also get confused. So, I'm looking for suggestions or experiences with similar situations. Thanks. Bill Wagman Univ. of California at Davis IET Campus Data Center wjwagman@xxxxxxxxxxx (530) 754-6208 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l