http://www.dizwell.com/prod/node/399 Howard Rogers covered this topic very well. Although the example was Windows, I think this could help. Kevin On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:04 -0600, Manjula Krishnan wrote: > We had a disk crash. All data files are intact (database was closed at > the time). But, all redo log files and controlfiles are lost. Can this > database be recovered? This is a development database so I am not too > worried, but would like to know if this is possible. > > Thanks, > > Manjula -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l