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<h2>Name</h2>
<p>svnadmin create — Create a new, empty repository.</p>
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<h2>Synopsis</h2>
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<code class="literal">svnadmin create REPOS_PATH</code>
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<h2>Description</h2>
<p>Create a new, empty repository at the path provided.
If the provided directory does not exist, it will be
created for
you.<sup>[<a id="idp23095920" href="#ftn.idp23095920" class="footnote">84</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. Also, keep in mind that, depending
on where on your system you are creating your
repository, you might need to run <span class="command"><strong>svnadmin
create</strong></span> as a user with elevated privileges
(such as the <code class="literal">root</code> user).</p>
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<h2>Options</h2>
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<a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.bdb_log_keep"><code class="option">--bdb-log-keep</code></a>
<a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.bdb_txn_nosync"><code class="option">--bdb-txn-nosync</code></a>
<a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.config_dir"><code class="option">--config-dir</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>DIR</code></em></a>
<a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.fs_type"><code class="option">--fs-type</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ARG</code></em></a>
<a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svnadmin.html#svn.ref.svnadmin.sw.pre_1.4_compatible"><code class="option">--pre-1.4-compatible</code></a>
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<h2>Examples</h2>
<p>Creating a new repository is this easy:</p>
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$ cd /var/svn
$ svnadmin create repos
$
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<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>
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$ cd /var/svn
$ svnadmin create repos --fs-type fsfs
$
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<p><sup>[<a id="ftn.idp23095920" href="#idp23095920" class="para">84</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>
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