[hobbit] Monitoring linux quotas

[Josh Luthman]

Galen,

Does your output look like this?

-> repquota -av
*** Report for user quotas on device /dev/md0
Block grace time: 7days; Inode grace time: 7days
                        Block limits                File limits
User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
----------------------------------------------------------------------
root      -- 1453828       0       0          43803     0     0
daemon    --      20       0       0              3     0     0
<snip>
jluthman  --     284       0       0             44     0     0
testuser   +- 1287896 1048576       0  6days       6     0     0

Statistics:
Total blocks: 7
Data blocks: 1
Entries: 16
Used average: 16.000000

Josh


On 1/16/08, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote:
>
>  Yep…solaris and OSX use the same commands for local filesystem quotas.
> There's a wrapper script for 'repquota -av' that needs to be tweaked to work
> correctly that we may be able to modify…I need to do this for another
> environment so I may get to it this weekend or next week.
>
>
>
> For your info, NetApp is basically a standalone nfs server (of cifs if you
> want to add windows mounts as well).
>
>
>
> =G=
>
>
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:04 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring linux quotas
>
>
>
> I am using "linux quotas" on Centos 5.1 (a RHEL derivative).
>
> I've never heard of NetApp.  The command I'm using to check the quotas are
> edquota and repquota.  I had to stick in the quota options in /etc/fstab
> too.  Does this help confirm I'm using the right quotas?
>
> Here is what the RPM says:
>
> Name   : quota
> Arch   : i386
> Epoch  : 1
> Version: 3.13
> Release: 1.2.3.2.el5
> Size   : 783 k
> Repo   : installed
> Summary: System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage.
>
> Description:
> The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring
> and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem.
>
>  On 1/16/08, *Galen Johnson* <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote:
>
> There's actually a better netapp monitoring tool for Hobbit (which I think
> works for BB as well).  I've found several snippets of various commands and
> perl scripts that could probably be cobbled together into a decent monitor.
>
>
>
> =G=
>
>
>
> *From:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:56 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring linux quotas
>
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 9:31 AM, Galen Johnson <Galen.Johnson at sas.com> wrote:
>
>  Unfortunatley, you didn't…I do recall seeing one but now I don't recall
> where.
>
>
> You may be thinking of this:
>
>      http://support.bb4.com/archive/200009/msg00877.html
>
> which uses rsh to get disk usage/quota from NetApp fileservers.
>
> Dunno if that helps, but it might give you a place to start.  How does the
> system tell you the users are exceeding their quotas??
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
>
>
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