Oracle Admin, (sorry starting a new thread on this but its a bit different from the original) I'm trying to drop this unused undo tablespace/dbf file. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Patrick OBrien. SQL> show parameter undo NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ undo_management string AUTO undo_retention integer 14400 undo_tablespace string UNDOTBS3 SQL> drop tablespace UNDOTBS1 including contents; drop tablespace UNDOTBS1 including contents * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01548: active rollback segment '_SYSSMU1$' found, terminate dropping tablespace SQL> drop rollback segment "_SYSSMU1$"; drop rollback segment "_SYSSMU1$" * ERROR at line 1: ORA-30025: DROP segment '_SYSSMU1$' (in undo tablespace) not allowed