hi, all, I am having some difficulty rebuilding the table partition/index partitions with different storage clause. say table search_attr_01 is hash partitioned tables and the storage for each table/partition is 10M. And it turned out to be too big and now I want to rebuild the index partition to make it smaller, to another smaller tablespace. Without specifying the storage(initial 1m next 1m) , rebuild index partition works, but storage not released. Is there any solution to this problem? we can't afford drop and recreate the index. 07:19:50 SQL> select count(*) from SEARCH_ATTR_01 partition (SYS_P674); COUNT(*) ---------- 177338 07:19:16 SQL> ALTER INDEX SEARCH_ATTR_01_AA_IDX REBUILD PARTITION SYS_P674 TABLESPACE SMALL_INDEX ONLINE storage(initial 1m next 1m); ALTER INDEX SEARCH_ATTR_01_AA_IDX REBUILD PARTITION SYS_P674 TABLESPACE SMALL_INDEX ONLINE storage(initial 1m next 1m) * ERROR at line 1: ORA-14185: incorrect physical attribute specified for this index partition 07:17:40 SQL> ALTER INDEX SEARCH_ATTR_01_AA_IDX REBUILD PARTITION SYS_P673 TABLESPACE SMALL_INDEX ONLINE; Index altered. Elapsed: 00:00:02.48 -- Regards Zhu Chao www.cnoug.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l