Hi, On the test machine the developer created a new tablespace and I can see in the alert.log file that the command was successful. Also I can see from dba_data_fies that the datafile is available and also the tablespace is showing as Online in dba_tablespaces. Also I am able to create and insert data into table created in this tablespace but problem is I don't see the file on server and I done search(find) as root and don't see file anywhere on the system. Where the file can be and what can be the possible reason for this behavior? Environment: Oracle 10.2.0.3 on RHAT4 Thanks --Harvinder -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l