IBM 000-8697 Manual Do Utilizador

IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide

You can create a dbspace while OnLine is in online mode. The newly added
dbspace (and its associated mirror, if there is one) is available immediately.

From within

DB-M

onitor, select the Dbspaces menu, Create option to

create a dbspace.

Enter the name of the new dbspace in the field

Dbspace Name

.

If you want to create a mirror for the initial dbspace chunk, enter a

Y

in the

Mirror

 field. Otherwise, enter

N

.

Enter the complete pathname for the initial primary chunk of the
dbspace in the

Full Pathname

 field of the primary chunk section.

Specify an offset in the

Offset

 field if it is appropriate for your

device.

Enter the size of the chunk, in kilobytes, in the

Size

 field.

If you are mirroring this dbspace, enter the mirror chunk full
pathname, size, and optional offset in the mirror chunk section of the
screen.

From the command line, execute the tbspaces utility with the following
options and parameters:

creates a new dbspace.

specifies a dbspace name.

specifies the explicit pathname of the primary chunk, either a
raw device or a

UNIX

 file.

specifies the raw device offset in kilobytes, if appropriate.

indicates dbspace mirroring and is followed by both pathname
and offset, if appropriate, for the dbspace mirror.