Dropping log groups, using Oracle Managed Files, will drop the files from the operating system. It doesn't appear to happen with ASM, so this seems to be normal behavior. David Fitzjarrell ________________________________ From: "Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <Christopher.Taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 3, 2012 11:04 AM Subject: Dropped Redo Log Group - files REMAINED in ASM Diskgroup ? Ok, so being still "newbish" to ASM, I was suprised to see that when I dropped an online redolog group, that the redo log files remained on the ASM disk group. Is this normal behavior or did I miss a step somewhere? SQL> set feed on SQL> set verify on SQL> set head on SQL> set lines 120 SQL> set pages 24 SQL> select * from v$logfile 2 where group# = 13 3 ; no rows selected ASMCMD [+] > ls DG_CCMNASQ4_REDO_01/CCMNASQ4/ONLINELOG (looks like we have lots of left overs) group10a group11a group12a group13a group13b group14a group14b group15a group16a group17a group18a group19a group1a group2a group3a group4a group5a group6a group_1.267.749561173 group_10.257.801054211 group_11.261.801054285 group_12.259.801054343 group_13.256.801055391 group_13.268.801054425 group_14.260.801055435 group_14.269.801054471 group_15.270.801055099 group_16.271.801055157 group_17.272.801055203 group_18.273.801055251 group_19.258.801055553 group_2.262.749560971 group_3.264.749561071 group_4.266.749561139 group_5.263.749561025 group_6.265.749561103 Chris Taylor Oracle DBA Parallon IT&S christopher.taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:christopher.taylor2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.parallon.net/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l