awright, i was able to manage it by dropping the dump file and redoing the expdp... whatever was it - (i guess just file corruption) - it's gone and works okay. weird, but at least it's working... O_o thank you everybody !!! On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Nigel Thomas < nigel.cl.thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Masha > > To see if it is a filesize problem, try reading the block that Oracle > objected to (ie block number 1048229 in dump file > "/u04/exports/prod8/expdat.dmp") using an O/S tool like dd. > > What size is your filesystem block? 2**10 (1024*1024) = 1048576, so this > block number would be fairly close to 2GiB if your filesystem block were 2K. > > Of course it could be a simple file corruption... Did you compress the > file? did you transfer it using ftp in ascii mode? But you might expect a > different error message for that. > > Regards Nigel > >