Henry: What you see is expected behavior, OCR should be owned by root:dba and voting disk should be owned by oracle:dba. I guess it is documented in the installation guide. -- Best Regards, K Gopalakrishnan Co-Author: Oracle Wait Interface, Oracle Press 2004 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/007222729X/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l