Hello Eriovaldo, you should run "DROP TABLESPACE TEMP2 INCLUDING CONTENTS AND DATAFILES;" to drop file and release space on disk. Now you have to delete file manually to release space on disk. Regards, Marko On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Eriovaldo Andrietta <ecandrietta@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hi friends, > > I had a temporary tablespace TEMP02 in the instance. > > I ran: > $ df -h . > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/f1/fold1 493G 154G 339G 32% /l/disk67 > > After it I ran : > select * from dba_temp_files; > I got the file : /l/disk67/app/oracle/oradata/instance_name/temp02.dbf > > I ran: > drop tablespace TEMP2; > > So I immediately ran > $ df -h . > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/f1/fold1 493G 154G 339G 32% /l/disk67 > > and the spaces was not released. It keeps with 339G Avail > > The SO is Linux > The database is 11g > > What is wrong ? > Disk space should be released immediately? > > Regards > Eriovaldo > > >