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How To Reclaim Asm Disk Space? (Doc ID 351866.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 08, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.1 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

You have a couple of 2 node RAC databases.

To test your backup strategy, you set up a backup using ASM storage.

Your archiving is also using ASM.

You noticed that after the archives are deleted, the ASM space is not released. 

You also deleted the test database, but the ASM space is not released.

Now you need to delete the backup files and archivelogs.  All of these files are on ASM.

How can you do that?

Solution

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