Deleting the flashback recovery area and the files (Oracle 10g on Solaris 8

Hi,
We have a dev. db which is small about 3 gb in all (crd files). for this I had enabled flashback and also put it in archivelog mode. then the db_recovery_file_dest_size grew to 3 gb. since space is an issue, I turned off the flashback feature. (by the command: ALTER DATABASE FLASHBACK OFF;)
Tomorrow I will also make it into noarchivelog mode. My question is: it is having lots of archived logs (may be 3 gb or more) in the flashback recovey area. What is the correct syntax to delete them? There is a warning in alert log which says that use RMAN delete command but I am not aware of exact syntax.
Thanks
Nirav

You can use variations of delete. (As you say there are many files, incude noprompt)
Once the database goes into noarchivelog mode, the archived redo logs are essentially worthless. They would be useful/necessary if you wanted to restore the database to a point in time prior to going noarchive, but if you don't need that, the two ways you are looking at deleting (depending how you go about it) are at the OS level and within the database (what Oracle knows or remembers about the archived redo logs and where they were sent to via the arch process). The RMAN approach is cleaner, assuming you were using that.
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/backup.102/b14192/maint009.htm#sthref776
Delete unnecessary files from the flash recovery area using the RMAN DELETE command. (Note that if you use host operating system commands to delete files, then the database will not be aware of the resulting free space. You can run the RMAN CROSSCHECK command to have RMAN re-check the contents of the flash recovery area and identify expired files, and then use the DELETE EXPIRED command to remove missing files from the RMAN repository.)

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