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Konichiwa,

I am managing an Internet Service. What command can customers use
to figure out how much disk quota being they are using? Please advise.
Thank you.

Quote:>I'm still having problems with the uploading of files.  I went in and
>deleted some very big files from the public_html directory where my pages
>are stored and it should have provided a lot of space for some text files.
>The message I am still receiving is that the disc quota is exceeded.  Do I
>need to do anything else besides delete those files or does it take some
>time for the server to recognize this?  I have also been trying to telnet
>and find out how much space I have, but the quota -v command is not
>working?  How can I find out on a regular basis my space?
>Please let me know what may be the problem?

Depends.  If the machine at your ISP has it, users can just type "quota"
and that should display a message that tells them how much disk space they
have left.  Actually, if you've established disk quotas, the quota program
is probably already on there.  If it isn't, however, then they can go into
their home directory and type "ls -l", find out the total amount of memory
that their directory's contents use, add that up and then subtract it from
the amount of quota space available to them :)

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On my system, "ls -l" only lists the size of the files and
directories in the current directory, and thus doesn't add up
the size of files in subdirectories.  To get an accurate view
of the size of my home directory and all its subdirectories,
I type "du -s ~".  (Check the man pages to get a more elaborate
response.)  This gives a fairly accurate total, though I think
links can throw it off.

David Brandt

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Bob
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Aside from the obvious quota command, there's the obvious du command.
type "du -k" (for kbytes) to see total kbyte usage.

Quote:>  If it isn't, however, then they can go into
> their home directory and type "ls -l", find out the total amount of memory
> that their directory's contents use, add that up and then subtract it from
> the amount of quota space available to them :)

du -sdk may not work; try du -s or du -k (I forget the exact syntax
for non Solaris machines).

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