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- From: amys@TheImprov.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Amy Swanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: quotas & NFS - do they mix?
- Message-ID: <Bx9FCo.E9C@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:24:22 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- (I've seen some discussions about this on comp.sys.sgi, so I am sorry if
- this has been discussed before, but of course, I wasn't setting up quotas
- then! And without some type of interface to the archive, I really don't
- want to wade through the archive of comp.sys.sgi on sgi.com. Besides, since
- I can't get quotas up and running, I don't have the disk space to download
- the archives!)
-
- I manage a lab of 20 Personal Irises with a 4D/240S file server. This lab
- has over 500 users, but not enough disk space and naturally there are those
- that don't understand the honor system for disk quotas. So, I'd like to run
- quotas to at least set some soft limits. A few questions:
-
- 1. When running quotas on just the server, I have set it up as instructed
- in the man pages, but I'm not getting any type of dynamic quota limits.
- On my test account, if I go over the hard limit, I'm still allowed to
- create files, etc. The only type of warning I get is when I first
- log on. Have I missed something in the set up? Shouldn't this be a
- lot more dynamic?
-
- 2. How does this work in an NFS environment? All the home dirs on are the
- server, which are then exported to the PIs. The users only log into the
- PIs - no one gets access to the server. Can I run quotas in this
- environment?
-
- (and stupid question #3)
- 3. How do the numbers you use in the quota file (soft limit, hard limit)
- correspond to the numbers you see when you did a "du -s ."? I even
- asked my SGI support person this question and we couldn't figure it
- out. The man page for quotas just says it's in 1K, but the numbers
- quotacheck comes up with don't correspond with the "du -s ." no matter
- how you divide/multiple/add/subtract/differentiate them.
-
-
- Thanks!
- Amy
-
-
- --
- =========
- Amy K. Swanson
- SGI Systems Administrator, NCSA
- amys@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-