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If the provided directory does not exist, it will be
created for you.<sup>[<a id="id422342" href="#ftn.id422342" class="footnote">59</a>]</sup> As of
Subversion 1.2, <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin</strong></span> creates new
repositories with the <code class="literal">fsfs</code> filesystem
backend by default.</p><p>While <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin create</strong></span> will create
the base directory for a new repository, it will not
create intermediate directories. For example, if you
have an empty directory named
<code class="filename">/var/svn</code>, creating
<code class="filename">/var/svn/repos</code> will work, while
attempting to create
<code class="filename">/var/svn/subdirectory/repos</code> will
fail with an error.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id422404"></a><h2>Options</h2><pre class="screen">
--bdb-txn-nosync
--bdb-log-keep
--config-dir DIR
--fs-type TYPE
</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="id422417"></a><h2>Examples</h2><p>Creating a new repository is just this easy:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos
</pre><p>In Subversion 1.0, a Berkeley DB repository is always
created. In Subversion 1.1, a Berkeley DB repository is
the default repository type, but an FSFS repository can be
created using the <code class="option">--fs-type</code>
option:</p><pre class="screen">
$ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos --fs-type fsfs
</pre></div><div class="footnotes"><br /><hr width="100" align="left" /><div class="footnote"><p><sup>[<a id="ftn.id422342" href="#id422342" class="para">59</a>] </sup>Remember,
<span class="command"><strong>svnadmin</strong></span> works only with local
<span class="emphasis"><em>paths</em></span>, not
<span class="emphasis"><em>URLs</em></span>.</p></div></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.c">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.c.deltify.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top"><span class="command"><strong>svnadmin</strong></span> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svnadmin deltify</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
