Oracle 9.2.0.4; Solaris 9 I have a table (CONTENT) with a lob. The table was 3.7 gig, the lob 385M (and the lob's index 5m) I moved the CONTENT table from DMT to LMT. Then I tried to move the lob. The LOB move took over 1 hour and consumed nearly 4 gigs of space in temporary segments. It's now 345 megs in the new LMT tablespace. BEFORE THE MOVE (in DMT tablespace) Ext Init Object Size nts Ext ---------------------------- ------ ---- ----- SYS_IL0000397843C00006$$ 5M 1 5M SYS_LOB0000397843C00006$$ 385M 57 9M CONTENT 3718M 285 10M DURING THE MOVE: 10.33548 15M 15 15M 10.24218 305M 81 300M 10.33932 3264M 219 8M CONTENT 3520M 223 8M AFTER THE MOVE (in LMT tablesapce) SYS_LOB0000397843C00006$$ 345M 86 200M SYS_IL0000397843C00006$$ 10M 10 10M CONTENT 3520M 223 8M The LMT tblspace is autoallocate. (I know not everyone here is a big autoallocate fan. But I would not expect that to be the issue.) Create tablespace arclmt datafile ' ' extent management local autoallocate logging online segment space management auto; Here's the command I used to move the lob: alter table arcdb.content move lob(measures) store as (tablespace arclmt); Is this expected?? I can't see why it would take 4 gigs to create a 345 meg object. Thanks!