'ls -ls' shows the real size of file in filesystem blocks on most modern unixes as well... Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Norris" <spikey.mcmarbles@xxxxxxxxx> To: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 8:55 PM Subject: Re: DBA_TEMP_FILES.MAXBYTES is wrong > My guess would be that the files are sparse. What are the results of > 'du -k'? Does it match up with the 'ls -l' output? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l