yep, I used lsof, but it doesn't show a process using the filesystem where it was the datafile.
Maybe fuser or lsof?
------------------------------ *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Ken Naim *Sent:* Friday, July 07, 2006 4:37 PM *To:* aleon68@xxxxxxxxx; 'oracle-l' *Subject:* RE: Linux does not show the freed space by a drop tablespace
. . . When I used to work on solaris 9 we used a command (which currently escapes me) that listed all the process id's that had handles on each datafile . . .
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