"quota" command prints nothing

I want to check how much disk space I can use in my Linux account. But
when I type "quota", nothing gets printed out.

What does that mean? Does it mean I have no disk space limit?
Thanks,
Gabriel

On 2005-01-05, Gabriel Nivasch <fresita053-gg@yahoo.com> wrote:
> What does that mean?

That you don't have quota support on that machine. So you don't have
a quota.
Davide

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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 09:18:30 +0000, Davide Bianchi wrote:

> On 2005-01-05, Gabriel Nivasch <fresita053-gg@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> What does that mean?
>
> That you don't have quota support on that machine. So you don't have
> a quota.
> Davide

No. It means that you're within your quota. Use quota -v to give details
of your quota restrictions.

Chris.

On 2005-01-05, Chris Cole <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> No. It means that you're within your quota.

AFAIK even if you are within quota the 'quota' command will print the
quota information:

$ quota
Disk quotas for user X (uid Y):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/hda5 244 10000 12000 5 1000 1200
/dev/hda6 4 10000 12000 1 1000 1200

The only case when 'quota' doesn't print anything is when quota isn't
supported or activated on the filesystem. Unless you have a weird quota tools.

Davide

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"quota -v" also prints nothing. So it seems that Davide is right and I
have no quota.

Thanks,
Gabriel

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:03:01 +0000, Davide Bianchi wrote:

> On 2005-01-05, Chris Cole <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No. It means that you're within your quota.
>
> AFAIK even if you are within quota the 'quota' command will print the
> quota information:
>
> $ quota
> Disk quotas for user X (uid Y):
> Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
> /dev/hda5 244 10000 12000 5 1000 1200
> /dev/hda6 4 10000 12000 1 1000 1200
>
> The only case when 'quota' doesn't print anything is when quota isn't
> supported or activated on the filesystem. Unless you have a weird quota tools.
>
> Davide

My mistake. It seems to work differently on Irix than linux.

On 2005-01-05, Chris Cole <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> My mistake. It seems to work differently on Irix than linux.

That explain a few things...
Davide

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"Gabriel Nivasch" <fresita053-gg@yahoo.com>,
In a message on 5 Jan 2005 06:48:11 -0800, wrote :

"N> "quota -v" also prints nothing. So it seems that Davide is right and I
"N> have no quota.

What does the 'mount' command (no arguments) display? For example:

holly.cs.umass.edu% mount|grep ext
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /RH73 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb3 on /RH73/usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb5 on /RH73/var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb7 on /scratch1 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb8 on /scratch2 type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda3 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /var type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sdb6 on /home type ext3 (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
holly.cs.umass.edu% quota
Disk quotas for user heller (uid 5125):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/sdb6 7596 20000 20500 353 0 0

Note that only /dev/sdb6 (/home) was mounted with the quota flags
(usrquota and grpquota). None of the other local file systems have
quotas setup.

"N>
"N> Thanks,
"N> Gabriel
"N>
"N>

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Robert Heller wrote:

> What does the 'mount' command (no arguments) display?

Here's what 'mount' prints to me:

$ mount
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

Gabriel

Gabriel Nivasch wrote:
> I want to check how much disk space I can use in my Linux account. But
> when I type "quota", nothing gets printed out.
>
> What does that mean? Does it mean I have no disk space limit?
> Thanks,
> Gabriel

I don't have quotas in my machine, and when I type "quota" it
says:
Disk quotas for user jkerouac (uid 500): none

That means I don't have any quota.


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