On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Charlotte Hammond < charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just to clarify - the file system in question had ONLY 5 data files. There > were > no tempfiles (so no sparse files), controlfiles, redo logs or anything else > on > the file system. The data files were not autoextensible and had not been > re-sized since backed up. > > It may be interesting to watch the file system from another shell while the restore is taking place: MYFFS='your filesystem here' while : do df -kl $MYFS find $MYFS -type f | xargs ls -ld echo '=================================' sleep 5 done Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com