Creating a Dbspace with onutil

You can create a new dbspace or temporary dbspace on a specific coserver.

When you create separate dbspaces without using a dbslice, a specific coserver owns and manages each dbspace. The physical disk on which the dbspace resides belongs to the node on which the coserver executes. This coserver is referred to as the home coserver.

The following example shows the onutil CREATE DBSPACE command to create a dbspace that coserver eds.2 owns:

% onutil
1> CREATE DBSPACE acctg_dbsp
2> CHUNK '/work/dbspaces/dbs_0' 
3> OFFSET 0 size 1500
4> COSERVER eds.2;

The above example assumes that one coserver exists on each node. For more information on onutil, refer to the utilities chapter in the IBM Informix: Administrator's Reference.