RE: Weekend Crunch Help - Freelist Groups

Ethan  

>ORA-03237: Initial Extent of specified size cannot be allocated in tablespace
>
>Running import from a 9.2.0.4 dump file into a 9.2.0.4 database with a 8k block size. Keep getting
>this error because freelist groups is set to 10 in the import file. If I take a copy of the
>statement and lower the FLG to 4 it works. It is going into a LMT with a 64K extent size, it is
>trying to make a 128K object, however I thought it should just ignore the storage on the import
>file (at least the extent size), how does FLG effect this?

The freelist group blocks have to be allocated just after the segment header block in the *first* extent. Since in your case the extents have only 8 blocks, you cannot specify 10 freelists groups. You should either change the size of the extents or lower the number of freelist groups.  

HTH
Chris  

PS: If I don't reply to further posts on this or others threads, it's simple because I'll spend the next 5 weeks traveling in Scandinavia :-)

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