Just lsof and the full path of the file or if it was multiple file from the same tablespace lsof | grep tablespacename. Tablespace name was included included in all our file names. Second option does take a little while. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Greg Norris Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 7:23 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Re: Linux does not show the freed space by a drop tablespace On 7/7/06, Alfonso León <aleon68@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > yep, I used lsof, but it doesn't show a process using the filesystem where > it was the datafile. What arguments did you pass to lsof? I've found "lsof +L1" to work rather well in your scenario, although it may need to be run by root rather than the oracle account. -- "I'm too sexy for my code." - Awk Sed Fred. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l