Datafile Size

  • From: Nagaraj S <nagaraj.chk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 22:59:58 +0530

Hi Gurus,



Kindly clarify my doubt on datafile size. I have noticed that the datafile
size is different from OS level vs database. When I query to get the size of
SYSAUX tablespace on database it showed me 310 MB, But on OS it showed me
830M.



SQL> select file_name,tablespace_name,bytes/1024/1024,
maxbytes/1024/1024,AUTOEXTENSIBLE

  2  from dba_data_files where tablespace_name='SYSAUX' order by file_name;



FILE_NAME

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TABLESPACE_NAME                BYTES/1024/1024 MAXBYTES/1024/1024 AUT

------------------------------ --------------- ------------------ ---

/DATA/ORACLE/datafiles/sysaux01.dbf

SYSAUX                                     310                  0 NO



bash-3.00$ pwd

/DATA/ORACLE/datafiles/

bash-3.00$ du -sh sysaux01.dbf

 830M   sysaux01.dbf

bash-3.00$


How this is possible?

Regards,
Naga

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