No enough freespace when upgrading a database

Question

I'm upgrading a 8.1.7 database to 9.2 on windows 2000. The database upgrade assistent tells me that there is no
enough freespace on the drive where the database residents. It says "ODMA_RBS" needs 90MB freespace
but actually I have 23GB available on that drive.
here is the message from the trace log:
[AWT-EventQueue-0] [21:32:24:750] [BackupDatabase.hasSpaceForBackup:329] Space needed for backup in KB:=959254
[AWT-EventQueue-0] [21:32:24:781] [BackupDatabase.queryDiskSpace:416] Querying diskSpace on: D:\
[AWT-EventQueue-0] [21:32:24:812] [BackupDatabase.hasSpaceForBackup:333] diskSpace Available in KB:= 23164512
[TaskScheduler timer] [21:32:27:734] [RollbackSegment.validate:252] Validate of Tablespace
[TaskScheduler timer] [21:32:27:734] [Tablespace.getValidateMsg:520] Validate of Tablespace
[TaskScheduler timer] [21:32:33:46] [Tablespace.checkForSpace:427] Requred space for file:D:\oracle\oradata\{MYDBNAME}\odma_rbs.dbf = 92160 KB
[TaskScheduler timer] [21:32:33:46] [Tablespace.checkForSpace:444] Freespace =0
[TaskScheduler timer] [21:32:33:156] [Tablespace.getValidateMsg:560] Could not create Tablespace: Msg
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Any suggestion?
PS: in the last line, Msg is in Chinese, I still don't know how to make the GUI programs like dbca, netca to use
english while I install it on a Chinese system.

Answer 1

The message in the original post indicates that tablespace ODMA_RBS needs to have 90 Mb free space. This is only indirectly related to the amount of free space on the drive.
The solution is to either expand an existing data file for tablespace ODMA_RBS by at least 90 Mb, or to add another data file to the tablespace at least 90 Mb in size.
Assuming that you have that much free space on the drive (and you appear to), then just substitute your tablespace name and free space amounts in the above.
HTH
John