Thanks all who replied. I was able to see the total estimated size using expdp in a small database, but it was hanging for over an hour for a DB of size ~200G. I had to kill it. Jared's script helped too. On 1/17/08, Tony Sequeira <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:27 -0600, Ram Raman wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to determine the dump file size before the export > > starts? I plan to do a full export of a database. ver 10.2. > > > > Thanks. > > What I used to do back in the days of Oracle7. Unix or Unix tools > required. > > Create a "named pipe" (mknod), pipe an export to this file, and wc -c > the result. > > Have a google search. > -- > S. Anthony Sequeira > ++ > Smear the road with a runner!! > ++ > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >