CREATE DIRECTORY - Kinetica Docs

Creates a new KiFS directory under which files can be uploaded and used for data loading.

CREATE DIRECTORY Syntax

CREATE DIRECTORY '<directory name>'
[WITH OPTIONS (data_limit = <data limit value>)]

Parameters

Name of the directory to create.

WITH OPTIONS

Optional indicator that a comma-delimited list of option/value assignments will follow. The following options are available:

Option	Description
`data_limit`	Total capacity the given directory should not exceed, in bytes; use `-1` for no limit

To create a directory, kdata, with no size limit:

CREATE DIRECTORY Example

CREATE DIRECTORY 'kdata'

To create a directory, fs_limited, with a 1,000,000 byte maximum capacity:

CREATE DIRECTORY with Limit Example

CREATE DIRECTORY 'fs_limited'
WITH OPTIONS (data_limit = 1000000)