I beg to differ... Whatever directory holds your audit_file_dest better not be running full. If oracle can no longer write to the audit files, a lot of things will start breaking (your backups for example, and everything done as SYS, even a connect). Stefan ========================= Stefan P Knecht CEO & Founder s@xxxxxxxx 10046 Consulting GmbH Schwarzackerstrasse 29 CH-8304 Wallisellen Switzerland Phone +41-(0)8400-10046 Cell +41 (0) 79 571 36 27 info@xxxxxxxx http://www.10046.ch ========================= On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > yes, Oracle wouldn't hang up because logs cannot be written. (this is > not true fro online redo logfiles, obviously. > > hth > Alan Bort > Oracle Certified Professional > > > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 6:40 PM, patrick obrien <po04541@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Oracle fans, > > > > Can the Diag_Dest filesystem fill up and Oracle 10g still work fine? > > > > I'm running Oracle 10G in an AIX Virtual SAN environment. My > > /u01/app/oracle/*/admin/*dump filesystem likes to fill up with *.trc > files > > etc. I do NOT have auditing turned on. > > > > Will Oracle continue to run fine if this filesystem fills up? > > > > Thank you All. > > Patrick. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >