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> I am a new Tru64 manager and have taken over a system from a few people
> who didn't have very much unix experience. At any rate I am writing today
> in hopes that someone can tell me how to delete the quota.user and
> quota.group files. We don't use them at all and they seem to have gotten
> to be about a gig in size if you can believe that. I have read how to
> make sure that quotas are turned off and the like from the MAN pages.
> But, if you try to remove the files you receive an error. You do not have
> privileges or something along those lines. I would appreciate any help
> that can be supplied. Thanks
>
> marc
>
The summary of my problem was that when I used the "ls" command to show file
size and the like it led me to believe that the above listed files were
quite large. This being a problem for me specifically because we are a
small outfit on a small budget so hard drive space is at a premium. When I
saw the size of these files and didn't think we needed them I was willing to
remove them. But, not before I attended a class and got reassurance from
the instructor. Now that I have learned that they are indeed sparse and do
not take up nearly as much space as believed I don't have much of a need to
delete them. I really appreciate all the responses.
Summary of the inputs
The listed files above are sparse and do not really take up as much space as
perceived. Using a du -k <filename> I found that my believed to be a gig
file was in fact less that a hundred meg.
The files seem to be very necessary to ADVFS and are un removable according
to most. But, I have never known Unix to make anything un removable.
Except for maybe root.
The adventurous souls who felt that this could be pulled off recommended the
following:
-First the quota entries are turned on in the /etc/fstab file
remove these entries and you might be able to remove the files
-Second idea
backup the drive, reformat the drive and restore from your backup
not using the quota files.
To all those who responded with something constructive to say I really
appreciate it, your insight into this matter has taught me something's and
made me better for the future.
Best of luck to all of you.
Thanks again
marc
Received on Wed Aug 16 2000 - 16:58:39 NZST