SUMMARY: Deleting quota.user and quota.group

From: Samson Golden <sam_at_comport.com>
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:43:42 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for the quick response!

Martin J. Moore wrote:

1. You can't delete them.

2. They're really not taking up that much space. These are sparse files
   and occupy *much* less space than the length would indicate. Try
   doing an ls -ls quota* and see the result. The first field is the
   amount of actual disk space in kbytes that each file occupies.

Martin

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Marie-Claude Vialatte wrote:
They don't use huge space :
   > ls -l /cust_tc/quota.user
   -rw-r--r--   1 root     operator 2097120 May 26 15:10 
/cust_tc/quota.user
   > du -sk /cust_tc/quota.user
   112     /cust_tc/quota.user          no more than 112 K
But I don't know how to remove them.
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In my case looking at the actual space used, gives:
 56 -rw-r--r--   1 root     operator   2097152 Aug 23  1996 /data/quota.group
176 -rw-r--r--   1 root     operator 395067392 Jun 18  1997 /data/quota.user
and 
 8 -rw-r-----   1 root     daemon      8192 Apr 17  1996 /tmp/quota.group
40 -rw-r-----   1 root     daemon   2097152 Jul  7  1997 /tmp/quota.user
Now I feel like I "gained" 300+ megabytes :-)
Regards,
Sam

Received on Tue May 26 1998 - 15:46:48 NZST