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SPACE IS NOT GETTING RELEASED AFTER DROPPING DATA FILES IN LINUX MACHINE.



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We have encountered the below situation many times.

The space is not getting released after dropping the data files in LINUX machine.

 SQL> drop user TMP561 cascade;

SQL> drop tablespace TMP561 including contents and datafiles;

Note: The schema size is around 300Gig. And its having 11 datafiles each  data-file 30G.

But after dropping the User/Tbs. Space is not reclaimed in the Server.

SOLUTION:

 After dropping the datafiles still one process is holding these files. Check like below
oracle@/oracle/tmp: /usr/sbin/lsof |grep deleted |grep TMP*

oracle    13683    oracle   17u      REG             253,16 33286004736   40550413 /user/TMP/TMP561_01.dbf (deleted)
oracle    13683    oracle   18u      REG             253,16 33286004736   40550414 /user/TMP/TMP561_02.dbf (deleted)
oracle    13683    oracle   20u      REG             253,16 32212262912  206487553 /user/TMP/TMP561_03.dbf (deleted)
oracle    13683    oracle   21u      REG             253,16 28183633920   40566785 /user/TMP/TMP561_04.dbf (deleted)
oracle    13683    oracle   22u      REG             253,16 24587214848  302956545 /user/TMP/TMP561_05.dbf (deleted)
oracle    25070    oracle   16u      REG             253,16 33286004736   40550413 /user/TMP/TMP561_06.dbf (deleted)
oracle    25070    oracle   17u      REG             253,16 33286004736   40550414 /user/TMP/TMP561_07.dbf (deleted)
oracle    25070    oracle   19u      REG             253,16 32212262912  206487553 /user/TMP/TMP561_08.dbf (deleted)
oracle    25070    oracle   20u      REG             253,16 28183633920   40566785 /user/TMP/TMP561_09.dbf (deleted)
oracle    25070    oracle   21u      REG             253,16 24587214848  302956545 /user/TMP/TMP561_10.dbf (deleted)

oracle    25070    oracle   21u      REG             253,16 24587214848  302956545 /user/TMP/TMP561_11.dbf (deleted)

 The marked processes are still holding these datafiles. 

 Kill those processes to re-claim the space in the server.

 oracle@kill -9  13683

 oracle@kill -9  25070

 Alert Log shows like below:

 oracle@ tail -f alert_HGU11.log
Immediate Kill Session: sess: 0x9ff8f060  OS pid: 13683
Thu Jan 15 22:51:11 PST 2015
Process OS id : 13683 alive after kill
Errors in file
Thu Jan 15 22:53:54 PST 2015
Immediate Kill Session#: 158, Serial#: 10
Immediate Kill Session: sess: 0x9ff8f060  OS pid: 13683
Thu Jan 15 22:53:55 PST 2015
Process OS id : 13683 alive after kill

 SOLUTION 2:
Another way is to RESTART the database. To reclaim the space in the server.
Thank You!





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