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to all users and groups; however, you can change the quota for a specific

user or group. See “Manage Filesystem Quotas” on page 175 for more

information.

Available Subdevices: The display includes all imported subdevices that

are not currently in use by another volume and that do not have a

filesystem in place. The subdevices that you select are used in the order in

which they appear on the list. Use the arrow keys to reorder, one-at-a-

time, the appropriate subdevices and then highlight those subdevices.

Striping: If you want this volume to use striping, check the “Enable

striping” checkbox and then select the size of the stripe. Although the

default stripe size of 64KB should be adequate for most applications and

hardware configurations, you may need to use a different stripe size for

your particular circumstances.

Click either OK or Apply to create the volume. (Apply keeps the window

open, allowing you to create additional dynamic volumes.)

When the dynamic volume has been created, the Management Console

reports the psv name assigned to the volume. On the Management

Console, filesystems are identified with the psv name of the dynamic

volume on which they are located, as shown below.

To create a dynamic volume from the command line, use the following

command:

mx dynvolume create [--stripesize <4KB-64MB>] <subDevice ...>

You can use either spaces or commas to separate the subdevice names.

The following command lists the available subdevices:

mx dynvolume showcreateopt