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A storage device is a basic or dynamic volume. To locate an available volume,

use the fs showcreateopt command.

The options are:

[--label <label>]

The label for the filesystem. It can contain up to 32 characters.

[--blocksize [4K|8K]]

The block size for the filesystem. If you will be using the filesystem with

MxDB for SQL Server, the block size must be 8 KB.

[--reuse]

Reuse a psd device. If you will be creating a filesystem on a psd device that is

associated with an unimported dynamic volume, the -reuse option must be

used to tell the command to reuse the device. Without this option, the attempt

to create the filesystem will fail because the device contains a volume

signature. Be sure that you do not need the unimported dynamic volume

before doing this.

[--quotas]

Enable quotas on the filesystem.

[--defaultUserHardLimit <unlimited | #{K,M,G,T}>]

The default hard limit on the filesystem. unlimited specifies that there is no

default. The optional size modifiers specify that the size is in kilobytes (K),

megabytes (M), gigabytes (G), or terabytes (T). If a modifier is not specified,

the size will be calculated in bytes. (The default is rounded down to the

nearest filesystem block.)

[--defaultUserSoftLimit <unlimited | #{K,M,G,T}>]

The default soft limit on the filesystem. unlimited specifies that there is no

default. The optional size modifiers specify that the size is in kilobytes (K),

megabytes (M), gigabytes (G), or terabytes (T). If a modifier is not specified,

the size will be calculated in bytes. (The default is rounded down to the

nearest filesystem block.)

[--enforceHardLimit <enable | disable>]

Whether file operations that will result in exceeding a user’s hard limit should

be denied (the enable argument) or allowed (the disable argument).

[--logHardLimitViolations <enable | disable>]

Whether file operations that result in exceeding a user’s hard limit should be

logged in the system event log.