Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/03/2011 11:39 AM, Dave wrote: So, is it fair to rephrase that as ignore quotas, pay attention to actual usage? ignore quotas is maybe too broad. Quota is a useful mechanism to keep individual users from using all of a system's resources and disrupting access for other users. Most

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Monday, January 03, 2011 11:39:38 am Dave wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/01/2011 05:56 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a best practice? People have to be doing something! I think that's unlikely. If you don't oversubscribe your disk

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/3/2011 1:39 PM, Dave wrote: So, is it fair to rephrase that as ignore quotas, pay attention to actual usage? I agree that some degree of oversubscription is probably desireable, and it would be much easier to just add storage whenever it looks to be getting fullish. My situation right

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-03 Thread Dave
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/01/2011 05:56 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a best practice? People have to be doing something! I think that's unlikely.  If you don't oversubscribe your disk space as a matter of policy, you'll force upgrades earlier

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/01/2011 05:56 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a best practice? People have to be doing something! I think that's unlikely. If you don't oversubscribe

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/01/2011 05:56 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a best practice? People have to be doing

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Brady
On 4/01/11 6:39 AM, Dave wrote: I agree that some degree of oversubscription is probably desireable, and it would be much easier to just add storage whenever it looks to be getting fullish. My situation right now makes that difficult - budget is gone, so I can't add storage, and my users

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/01/2011

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/01/2011 05:56 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a best practice? People have to be doing something! I think that's unlikely. If you don't oversubscribe your disk space as a matter of policy, you'll force upgrades earlier than most people would consider them necessary. Most users, I'd expect,

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2011-01-01 Thread Dave
2010/12/31 Jorge Fábregas jorge.fabre...@gmail.com: On Thursday, December 30, 2010 09:53:25 pm Dave wrote: I want to add up the quotas I've assigned on a particular partition and see if the total is bigger than the disk. It's possible to do this (awkwardly) using repquota or quota. Is there no

Re: [CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2010-12-31 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Thursday, December 30, 2010 09:53:25 pm Dave wrote: I want to add up the quotas I've assigned on a particular partition and see if the total is bigger than the disk. It's possible to do this (awkwardly) using repquota or quota. Is there no more accurate/elegant way? I don't think so. I

[CentOS] OT how to prevent oversubscription of a disk

2010-12-30 Thread Dave
I want to add up the quotas I've assigned on a particular partition and see if the total is bigger than the disk. It's possible to do this (awkwardly) using repquota or quota. Is there no more accurate/elegant way? I can't be the first person to worry that more quota has been issued than the disk