I'll bite. Apparently I tried this on Veritas volume manager about 4 years ago on an index tablespace on a raw Veritas volume. While it seemed to work, I checked with an experienced sys admin and he immediately tried to strangle me over the phone. He said that this is definitely not supported. A raw volume cannot be resized. The proper way to do so was to drop the volume itself and recreate it. He asked me to drop the index and re-boot. Fortunately things came up clean. I was able to drop the volume and rebuild a new volume. But in short, what I've been told is that this is not a supported operation. -- mohammed --- Connor McDonald <mcdonald.connor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Assuming you've got a (say) 4g datafile on a 4g raw > veritas volume, > then after you've shrunk the datafile to (say) 3g, > then is there > anything that prohibits you from shrinking the > veritas volume back > down to 3g (plus a little bit) as well ? > > I just got asked and replied "yes", but I've just > done a quick > double-check of the docs. > > Whilst the veritas docs wax lyrical about how cool > they're product is > because they can shrink volumes with file systems on > it etc etc, > there's nothing that specifically says you can (or > are allowed to) do > it with a raw volume (that has a datafile on it). > > Any takers ? > --=20 > Connor McDonald > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= > =3D=3D > email: connor_mcdonald@xxxxxxxxx > web: http://www.oracledba.co.uk > > "Semper in excremento, sole profundum qui variat" > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > Discover Yahoo! Use Yahoo! to plan a weekend, have fun online and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l