Tim, Martin, Unfortunately the suggestions require knowing the filenames that were deleted. I would have to guess what the PID was as I didn't take note when I rm'ed them. I think I'm up the creek, but fortunately, this is a development system. Will do some more digging. Thanks, Mike > -----Original Message----- > first try MB> fuser filename > TG> echo "This file truncated by DBA on `date`" > {file-name} -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l