|  | Posted by sybrandb on 10/18/07 22:27 
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:15:21 +0000 (UTC), Erland Sommarskog<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:
 
 >But your answer is interesting. I take it that to get rid of database
 >files with Oracle, DROP DATABASE is not the way to go, or at least it is
 >not sufficient. But do you really have to reboot to get Oracle to let go
 >of the files?
 
 Unix (you know the OS people blinded by Microsoft know nothing about)
 will keep the inode of the file open, even if you deleted the file.
 
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 Sybrand Bakker
 Senior Oracle DBA
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