On 11/02/2004 05:02:25 PM, David Sharples wrote: > there really is no practical limit for datafile sizes. The argrument > of no more than 2Gb is crass at best. That is not quite true. So called "2GB limit" is indeed gone, but here =20 is what the fine manual says (Oracle Reference 9.2, database limits) ***************************************************************************= *********** Database file size =09 Maximum =09 Operating system dependent. Limited by maximum operating system file =20 size; typically 222 or 4M b. ***************************************************************************= ********** The formulation "4M b", coined with the crystal clarity typical of =20 Oracle Corp. documentation, means "4 million file system blocks". =20 Typical FS block size is 4k, so 4,000,000*4096=3D16GB. In particular, =20 this limit does apply on all Linux boxes. I've seen files grow above =20 16GB and become corrupt. So, limits are much bigger now, but you still =20 cannot go above warp 9. --=20 Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l