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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