Hi James Holland
Thank you for nice trick "gparted"
I only see 1.10TiB Free space, but have expected ~4TB as I have 12TB


With Regards
sunil




On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:46 PM, James Holland <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm quite lazy and use Gparted to do this stuff. You can install it by
> doing yum install gparted. You can then see your disks and partitions and
> create and label /home on your free 4TB partition. Then edit /etc/fstab. Let
> us know if you need further help!
>
>
> On 03/06/11 12:40, Sunil M. Dogra wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi James Holland,
>> Thank you so much for email
>> Could you please tell me how I will see that 4TB is free.
>> As I have 12x1TB disk mounted as a single disk. Out of 12TB I have used
>> 8TB as /export,
>>
>> Thank you
>> With Best Regards
>> sunil
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:20 PM, James Holland <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> So, just mount your 4TB on /home. Stick it in the fstab as LABEL=/home
>> /home ext3 defaults 1 2
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    On 03/06/11 08:39, vivek chalotra wrote:
>>
>>        Oh  u have done automatic disk partitioning...u have not created
>>        seperate mount point for users.
>>
>>        Vivek Chalotra
>>        GRID Project Associate,
>>        High Energy Physics Group,
>>        Department of Physics & Electronics,
>>        University of Jammu,
>>        Jammu 180006,
>>        INDIA.
>>
>>
>>        On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Sunil M. Dogra
>>        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>            Hi
>>            Following is my /etc/fstab and donot see the /home. now how
>>        will I
>>            manage quota for users
>>
>>
>>            LABEL=/                  /                       ext3
>>            defaults              1 1
>>            LABEL=/export        /export                 ext3
>>            defaults              1 2
>>            LABEL=/opt             /opt                    ext3
>>            defaults              1 2
>>
>>            LABEL=/boot           /boot                   ext3
>>            defaults              1 2
>>            tmpfs                       /dev/shm                tmpfs
>>            defaults              0 0
>>            devpts                    /dev/pts                devpts
>>            gid=5,mode=620        0 0
>>            sysfs                       /sys                    sysfs
>>            defaults              0 0
>>            proc                       /proc                   proc
>>            defaults              0 0
>>            LABEL=SW-cciss/c0d0p2   swap                    swap
>>            defaults              0 0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>            Regards
>>            sunil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>            On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:42 PM, vivek chalotra
>>        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>                Dear Sunil Sir,
>>
>>                Here are answers to your questions:-
>>
>>                1. DO an entry in /etc/fsab for /home like the
>>        following, but
>>                make sure where it is actually mounted:-
>>                # cat /etc/fstab
>>
>>                LABEL=//ext3defaults1 1
>>
>>                /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /homeext3defaults,usrquota1 2
>>
>>                LABEL=/home/homeext3defaults1 2
>>
>>                LABEL=/boot/bootext3defaults1 2
>>
>>                tmpfs/dev/shmtmpfsdefaults0 0
>>
>>                devpts/dev/ptsdevptsgid=5,mode=6200 0
>>
>>                sysfs/syssysfsdefaults0 0
>>
>>                proc/procprocdefaults0 0
>>
>>                LABEL=SWAP-sda5swapswapdefaults0
>>
>>
>>                # mount –o remount /home
>>
>>                # quotacheck –a /home (It will create a database file
>>                aquota.user at /home)
>>
>>                # quotaon /home (means we have applied quota on /home)
>>
>>                # edquota –u username (to apply quota on a particular
>> user).
>>
>>                # edquota sunil
>>
>>                File Systemblockssofthardinodessofthard
>>
>>                /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00721000000001000000001800
>>
>>                # edquota –t(To apply grace period)
>>
>>                Filesystemblock grace periodinode grace period
>>
>>                /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol007 days7 days
>>
>>
>>
>>                2. Mount the 4TB free space in some mount point and then
>>        create
>>                  ext3 file system in it using fdisk or
>>                any other disk management tool.
>>
>>                Regards
>>                Vivek Chalotra
>>                GRID Project Associate,
>>                High Energy Physics Group,
>>                Department of Physics & Electronics,
>>                University of Jammu,
>>                Jammu 180006,
>>                INDIA.
>>
>>
>>
>>                On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Sunil M. Dogra
>>        <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>>        <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>
>>                    Hi,
>>                    Two Questions:
>>
>>                    1. I would like to give specific disk space to users
>>        but I
>>                    don't have /home in /etc/fstab. I will appreciate if
>>        some
>>                    one will suggest me how to do disk quota management.
>>
>>                    2. During SL5.5 installation I used 8TB disk space
>>        and  kept
>>                    the 4TB disk space free, Now I want to use this 4TB as
>>                    scratch, how will I do that.
>>
>>
>>
>>                    Thank you
>>                    With Best Regards
>>                    sunil
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

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