The reason I mentioned for only 8/8i is in vesrion 7 you need to have datafile timestamp match for database to recognize that datafile. So, you have to preserve the timestamp while OS copying the datafile with "cp -p" option.

It depends upon the volume of activity on that tablespace. It should work fine. I have just mentioned.

Hope this clears your Q...

[Edited by sreddy on 02-27-2001 at 01:36 PM]