Hi All, When my porgramme tries to write to a file using the utl_file.putf () it is writing only 15000 records only. and after that it is erroring out. I checked the mountpoint. it has lot of free space. i removed it and tried again, but same error: declare * ERROR at line 1: ORA-29285: file write error ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 18 ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_FILE", line 993 ORA-06512: at line 180 the database is 9201 and solaris 9. is there any parameter i am missing here ? can someone help me ? Thanks in advance, RAj __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com