>>> >>>Rich, I think the answer depends on your OS. If the OS is >>>configured to handle datafiles of 32G or larger then leave >>>the setting alone. If your OS have a 4G file limit then ...is there still a filesystem where Oracle is supported that limits file sizes to 4GB? That would seem weird. Of course a file can only have (2^21)-1 database blocks unless it is a 10g BIGFILE tablespace so you can't get all that huge anyway with 2 or 4KB oracle blocks. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l