Yesterday I asked the following question:
>On an 8 GB ADVFS fileset here the quota file sizes look frightening:
>> ls -al
>...
>-rw-r----- 1 root operator 137438928896 Feb 17 17:07 quota.group
>-rw-r----- 1 root operator 137438928896 Feb 17 17:11 quota.user
>
>Now, according to man ls :
>NOTE
>
> [DIGITAL] Sparse files, such as quota files, may not be using as much on-
> disk storage as the ls -l command reports. Use the ls -s command to obtain
> an accurate report of the on-disk storage used by a sparse file.
>
>and trying ls -s gives
>> ls -s
>...
>48 quota.group
>64 quota.user
>...
>
>which is more understandable. The largest uid on the system is
>65534 for nobody while the largest uid owned by a regular user is
>only 1054. Why are those files so enormously sparse?
>
>This might be an aestethic problem only. However, I would prefer
>to have less sparse files with "normal" sizes. vquotacheck has not
>helped so far. The system is running DU 4.0D with patch kit 2. So,
>what is the solution?
I had a few answers which I will summarize quoting Tom Blinn
(tpb_at_zk3.dec.com):
>The solution is "don't worry, be happy". Really. The quota files work the
>way they do because that is the way they work. There is NOTHING you can do to
>make them either look smaller or be smaller, and the things that you attempt
>might mess up your system. Your only alternative is "don't use AdvFS, use UFS
>and don't use quotas". Then you don't have quota files at all.
So, I am happy and I do not worry any more:-)
Bjorn
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Received on Thu Feb 18 1999 - 17:27:38 NZDT