Assume you’ve got a huge temporary tablespace, there’s plenty of space in your favourite tablespace, you’ve got a very boring, simple table you want to copy and partition, and no-one and nothing is using the system. Would you really expect a (fairly) ordinary “create table t2 as select * from t1” to end with an Oracle error “ORA-1652: unable to extend temp segment by 128 in tablespace TEMP” . That’s the temporary tablespace that’s out of space, not the target tablespace for the copy.
Here’s a sample data set (tested on 11.2.0.4 and 12.1.0.2) to demonstrate the surprise – you’ll need about 900MB of space by the time the entire model has run to completion: