Hi all Scenario We lost a set of discs, they were only being used as a scratch pad and contained no production data. About 10 tablespace was located on the disc. The tablespace had in them partitioned tables by list and then sub portioned by hash. I am having problems dropping the tablespaces including contents since it picks up that it is a partitioned table that contains segments in other tablespaces. I have tried dropping the user with cascade but this tries to access the actual datafiles which is of course not reachable. George =20 ________________________________________________ =20 George Leonard Oracle Database Administrator Dimension Data (Pty) Ltd (Reg. No. 1987/006597/07) Tel: (+27 11) 575 0573 Fax: (+27 11) 576 0573 E-mail:george.leonard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.didata.co.za =20 You Have The Obligation to Inform One Honestly of the risk, And As a Person You Are Committed to Educate Yourself to the Total Risk In Any Activity! Once Informed & Totally Aware of the Risk,=20 Every Fool Has the Right to Kill or Injure Themselves as They See Fit! =93This e-mail is sent on the Terms and Conditions that can be accessed b= y Clicking on this link http://www.vodacom.net/legal/email.asp " ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------