Bryan, 1.) Create *temporary* TEMPORARY tablespace. 2.) Loop through all users, alter user ... reset temp tablespace to that created in #1. 3.) Drop current temp tablespace. 4.) Create the temp tablespace in the new target disk. 5.) Loop through all users, alter user ... to reset the temp space that created in #4. 6.) Drop tablespace created in #1. But, before you do all that, have you considered whether this is really going to increase performance? How did you come to that conclusion? -Mark On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 12:55, Bryan Wells wrote: > Okay... I want to improve some disk space by moving temporary > tablespaces to another physical disk, however, im thinking I cant do > this w/o dropping and recreating since i cant take a temporary > tablespace offline to move it. ora can I? -- Mark J. Bobak mark@xxxxxxxxx "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." --Richard P. Feynman -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l