This is a classic "Call Support" question. There must be a very simple ans= wer to this question, but the number of questions which need to be asked fi= rst to narrow down which answer applies far exceeds the interaction I can s= upport at this time. The support people should be able to go through that = process and get resolution far more quickly. My guess is either you have not yet waited for the rebalance process to com= plete, or you may have added the disk to the wrong failure group if you are= running ASM redundancy. = Pete = "Controlling developers is like herding cats." Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook = "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!" Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] = On Behalf Of Steiner, Randy Sent: Tuesday, 3 May 2005 2:27 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: 10g ASM state I am using ASM 10.1.0.4 and tried to add a disk to a diskgroup. When I query asm the new disk has a status of Forcing and I can not use the space. Anyone know what that status means and how I can use the diskspace? = Thanks Randy = -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l