That's another route I could take, but… (please don't groan too much) the particular instance where I need this information is on Windows (was NOT my preference and was done primarily for as a cost benefit). I think I'll follow up with this or Mark's idea on how to get htat information out of a query. External tables it is! Thanks, all! Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: Deepak Sharma [mailto:sharmakdeep_oracle@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:11 PM To: SHEEHAN, JEREMY; mark.powell@xxxxxxx; oracle list Subject: Re: OS Information from Database We have cron job that does 'df -k' to a flat-file every hour or so (this can be tweaked). That file can then be read as an external table and you can join to other dba_% views -Deepak ________________________________ From: "SHEEHAN, JEREMY" <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx> To: "mark.powell@xxxxxxx" <mark.powell@xxxxxxx>; oracle list <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 2:35:48 PM Subject: RE: OS Information from Database Unfortunately we're not using ASM. Disappointing…. Any other ideas? Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:27 PM To: oracle list Subject: RE: OS Information from Database If you are using ASM to manage your disks then yes there are a slew of ASM views that you can use like v$asm_diskgroup. See the Oracle version# Reference manual. -- Mark D Powell -- Phone (313) 592-5148 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of SHEEHAN, JEREMY Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 3:15 PM To: oracle list Subject: OS Information from Database Hey folks, I know there is the V$OSSTAT view where you can see the current state of the OS, but is there a view where you can see the state of the disk drives (as in capacity, % full or bytes used vs bytes total) from the db? I've got a feeling that there isn't, but I'd figured that I would check. Thanks in advance! Jeremy P Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.