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    I have allocated 2 meg to each partition table(based on months) in my database. I querried the partitions and I have noticed that only 70% of the space alloacted to each partition has been used.
    Is the remaining 30% on each partiton freeable? Or since it has not being used by the partitons that means it's still free for other objects to use.
    I am thinking that since they have been allocated to the partiton, then that means they "locked up" in the partiton unless they are freed.

    Any explanation will be appreciated.

    thanks,
    Clinton.

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    If the partitions are not subdivided into separate tablespaces then any partition extending should be able to use the space - that's why it's so important to keep extents the same size (initial and next) or at the very least a multiple of each other to avoid fragmentation issues.

    When a partition is created it automatically gets at least one initial extent of size initial extent.
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