you have data beyond the 2Gb limit of the file, there is nothing to fix and it will stay like that as temporary tablespace segments just get reused. Create a new temporary ts then drop old one As for cold backup, no you dont need to back it up On 1/19/06, dba1 mcc <mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > alter database tempfile > '/u/oradata/DECDB/temp01DECDB.dbf' resize > 2000m > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-03297: file contains used data beyond requested > RESIZE value >