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OFSAA Installer Fails With 'Insufficient disk space. Minimum xxxxx MB of free disk space required under Alternate backup location.' (Doc ID 2794993.1)

Last updated on MAY 03, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Financial Services Profitability Management - Version 8.1.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure - Version 8.1.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Financial Services Funds Transfer Pricing - Version 8.1.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management - Version 8.1.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications (OFSAA)
Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure (OFSAAI)

Symptoms

When installing an OFSAA 8.x patch, you get the following space error:

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Checking disk Space...
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Available free disk space in Alternate backup location is 117949 MB.
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Not enough Disk Space
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Insufficient disk space. Minimum 199514 MB of free disk space required under Alternate backup location.
Cancelling Patch Installation

Each time you run the installer, it is expects a larger amount of space.

Your $FIC_HOME is a value like /ofsaa8/ where it is the first directory after the root directory.

The params.conf is configured to use a backup directory of /ftpshare/bkup.

Cause

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