May be you would need to Purge the Recycle bin. Are you using Bigfile/DMT/LMT? Refer to Metalink Notes Note:380473.1, Note:1061937.6 Are you receiving any error while shrinking? HTH GovindanK On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:47:08 -0500, [1]oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx said: > Hi, > > We have an Oracle 10.2.0.1 database on RHAT4 test server and I resize > the file from 100G to 30G and operation is successful and I can see in > the dba_data_file it is showing now as 30G but on hard drive/filesystem > it is still showing 100G. So I assumed OS may release space when other > process needs it but it didn't happened and other process failed for > space reasons and also I rebooted the server but still no effect. > What can be the possible reasoning for this behavior and how to reduce > the size at file system level. > > Thanks > --Harvinder > > -- > [2]www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > References 1. mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 2. file://localhost/tmp/linkstmp/www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle