Thanks to the following for quick responses to an almost too obvious
question:
Joe Fletcher, Marie-Claud Vialatte, Scott Fafrak, Tyler Hall, and Dr. Thomas
Blinn
Lots of hints (and chastisements for not reviewing the archives):
The quota files are "sparse" files and aren't really as big as they look.
You can safely leave them alone.
Use du -sk /*/q* to see real size of these files.
Or, if you want to get fancy...
# ls -sl /*/quota.* | awk 'BEGIN { print "\n Actual Allocated\n" } \
{ printf (" %6d %10d -- %s\n",$1*1024,$6,$10) }'
Two points:
1) The files are sparse, that is, the vast majority of the pages that
could be in a file with the indicated end of file pointer are simply
not there. Think of it as a big array with only some rows filled in.
2) You can't remove them. Even if you're not using quotas, AdvFS has
a rule that you MUST have the files. Period.
The problem is somewhere else. There are ways to tell which files are
the really large files. Those aren't them.
*** Original Question below***
> As usual, we are continually fighting to reclaim space on our
> drives. That is what prompted me to look at files which seemed to use a
lot
> of space. Below are the ls -l listings of my q* files and I am wondering
if these
> quote.x files are really as big as some of them seem to be, and why.
>
> # ls -l /*/q*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 57344 May 14 2000 /sbin/quotacheck
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 40960 Mar 5 17:58 /tmp/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 303104 Mar 5 17:58 /tmp/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Nov 2 1998 /u01/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Nov 2 1998 /u01/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Feb 2 1999 /u02/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 32768 Feb 2 1999 /u02/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 May 27 2000 /u03/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 16384 Mar 6 15:21 /u03/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Nov 2 1998 /u04/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root operator 8192 Nov 2 1998 /u04/quota.user
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 applmgr users 401408 Nov 2 1998 /u05/quota.group
> -rw-rw-rw- 1 applmgr users 655360 Nov 2 1998 /u05/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle2 dba2 8192 Feb 5 13:34 /u06/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 oracle2 dba2 2097152 Mar 8 12:36 /u06/quota.user
> -rw-r----- 1 root 20 40960 Mar 5 17:59 /usr/quota.group
> -rw-r----- 1 root 20 303104 Mar 5 17:59 /usr/quota.user
>
> (Running AS4100, 4.0g)
>
> Darryl Milczarek
> EMS 602 258-8545
> darryl.milczarek_at_emsusa.com
>
Received on Thu Mar 22 2001 - 13:26:38 NZST