During installation, default storage locations and underlying areas are established for each type of database file.

When you create a database, the default locations are assumed unless you specify alternate locations.

The following table shows the default locations and the Actian X environment variables that identify the areas to which the locations are mapped:

In each case, the Actian X environment variable points to a specific disk volume or directory that has a particular structure, which is shown in the following tables.

For example, using the default location for data files causes them to be stored in the ii_database\ingres\data\default directory, where ii_database is the value displayed by the ingprenv command for the II_DATABASE environment variable.

For example, using the default location for dump files causes them to be stored in the ii_dump/ingres/dmp/default directory, where ii_dump is the value displayed by the ingprenv command for the II_DUMP environment variable.