Per note *359515.1* nfs mounts are supported for datafiles with oracle 10. Does anyone know if the same applies for 9.2 databases? I urgently need to create a clone of a 9.2 environment, but suprise surprise don't have disk space available directly attached to the server. And yes I have opened a tar, but figure someone where must have done this, been bitten etc etc. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info