we have a DELL server with Redhat AS 3.4 installed. I found one of ORACLE file have wield size (ORACLE 9ir2). I used "ls -al" look it and it show very large, but if I check it inside ORACLE and it show 400MB. %ls -al total 3898880 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 Sep 14 22:58 . drwxr-xr-x 12 oracle oinstall 4096 Sep 18 20:20 .. -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 3874816 Sep 19 13:25 control03.ctl -rw-r----- 1 oracle oinstall 74343117934821376 Sep 15 19:37 system01.dbf I try to copy this file to other place and it stop on 400MB and stay in there never finish. Does anyone know how to fix this problem? Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l