topic Re: Disk Quota in Operating System - HP-UX

Disk Quota

roobala — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:20:54 GMT

We implemented Disk Quota in a Workstation running HP-UX 10.20.We had followed the standard procedure only .But today morning some users have complained that some of their files were nullified.Can somebody tell me why it is happening so and what prevention to be taken before implementing quotas?

Regds
SJ

Re: Disk Quota

melvyn burnard — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:24:22 GMT

what do you mean by "nullified" ?
quotas will not remove files, it just uses the rules you set to first warn the user that they are over their limit, and then if they go over hte hard limit, or the time frame given, prevents them from creating new files etc.

Re: Disk Quota

U.SivaKumar_2 — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:45:54 GMT

Hi,
I think hard disk quota is enabled. it will prevent users from saving the files once the quota exceeds.

regards,
U.SivaKumar.

Re: Disk Quota

roobala — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:49:10 GMT

I meant that the file size has become zero.The login shell is ksh and some have complained that their .kshrc files have become of zero size

Re: Disk Quota

Garry Ferguson — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:23:15 GMT

roobala,
Are the complaining users over quota?
As U.SivaKumar says, once you
are at the hard limit if you
open a file and try a save it will write it zero size.
We get this problem on our SUN machines. We haven't found a way round it and have just had to make users aware of it! It allows more testing of backup tapes!
Quite why .kshrc files are affected I don't know.
Garry F

Re: Disk Quota

roobala — Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:40:32 GMT

Thanx Siva and Gary
We could identify the pblm
We creted a fs and set quota on that and copied files till the limit.Tried to edit and save on file and we got this error

"
No space left on device [Warning - test is incomplete]

Your edited changes will be lost if you do not complete a successful write command before exiting. If you were writing out to your originalfile, the previous contents of that file have been destroyed. Contactyour System Administrator BEFORE exiting if you need assistance.

[Hit return to continue] "

So it is sure that your file will be of zero size.