Creating a Bucket

Function

You can use this command to create a bucket. A bucket name must be unique in OBS. One account can create a maximum of 100 buckets.

If you create a bucket and name it the same as an existing one in the same account and region, no error will be reported and status code 200 is returned. The bucket properties comply with those set in the first creation request. In other cases, creating a bucket with the same name as an existing one will receive the status code 409, indicating that the bucket already exists.

Command Line Structure

In Windows

obsutil mb obs://bucket [-fs] [-az=xxx] [-acl=xxx] [-location=xxx] [-config=xxx]

In Linux or macOS

./obsutil mb obs://bucket [-fs] [-az=xxx] [-acl=xxx] [-location=xxx] [-config=xxx]

Examples

Take the Windows OS as an example. Run the obsutil mb obs://bucket-test command to create a bucket. The creation is successful.
```
obsutil mb obs://bucket-test

Create bucket [bucket-test] successfully, request id [0000016979E1D2EA860BB5E80A6B8FCC]
```

Take the Windows OS as an example. Run the obsutil mb obs://bucket001 command to create a namesake bucket. The creation fails.

obsutil mb obs://bucket001

Create bucket [bucket001] failed, http status [409], error code [BucketAlreadyExists], error message [The requested bucket name is not available. The bucket namespace is shared by all users of the system. Please select a different name and try again.], request id [04030000016757F31A0333281A6B1E92]

Parameter Description

Parameter	Optional or Mandatory	Description
bucket	Mandatory	Bucket name NOTE: A bucket name must comply with the following rules: Contains 3 to 63 characters, including lowercase letters, digits, hyphens (-), and periods (.), and starts with a digit or letter. Cannot be an IP address. Cannot start or end with a hyphen (-) or period (.). Cannot contain two consecutive periods (.), for example, my..bucket. Cannot contain periods (.) and hyphens (-) adjacent to each other, for example, my-.bucket or my.-bucket.
fs	Optional (additional parameter)	Creates a parallel file system.
az	Optional (additional parameter)	Specifies a bucket's data redundancy policy. Possible values are: multi-az NOTE: If multi-az is used, a bucket with the multi-AZ storage policy will be created. If this parameter is not specified, a bucket with the single-AZ storage policy will be created.
acl	Optional (additional parameter)	Access control policies that can be specified when creating a bucket. Possible values are: private public-read public-read-write NOTE: The preceding three values indicate private read and write, public read, and public read and write.
location	Mandatory unless the region where the OBS service resides is not the default region (additional parameter)	Region where the bucket resides.
config	Optional (additional parameter)	User-defined configuration file for executing a command. For details about parameters that can be configured, see Parameter Description.