Kurt > This might be true on dictionary managed tablespaces and LMT Uniform > size, but not so for LMT Autoallocate : With autoallocate it seams that the size is used instead of the number of extents... In the following example one MB for each datafile: SQL> create tablespace t 2 datafile '/tmp/t1.dbf' size 10m, 3 '/tmp/t2.dbf' size 10m, 4 '/tmp/t3.dbf' size 10m, 5 '/tmp/t4.dbf' size 10m 6 extent management local autoallocate; SQL> create table t (n number) 2 tablespace t; SQL> begin 2 for i in 1..30 loop 3 execute immediate 'alter table t allocate extent'; 4 end loop; 5 end; 6 / SQL> select file_id, extent_id, bytes 2 from dba_extents 3 where owner = user and segment_name = 'T 4 order by extent_id; FILE_ID EXTENT_ID BYTES ---------- ---------- ---------- 6 0 65536 6 1 65536 6 2 65536 6 3 65536 6 4 65536 6 5 65536 6 6 65536 6 7 65536 6 8 65536 6 9 65536 6 10 65536 6 11 65536 6 12 65536 6 13 65536 6 14 65536 6 15 65536 7 16 1048576 8 17 1048576 5 18 1048576 6 19 1048576 7 20 1048576 8 21 1048576 5 22 1048576 6 23 1048576 7 24 1048576 8 25 1048576 5 26 1048576 6 27 1048576 7 28 1048576 8 29 1048576 5 30 1048576 SQL> select 65536*16 from dual 65536*16 ---------- 1048576 Cheers, Chris -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l