NAME¶
parrot_mkalloc - create a directory with a space allocation
SYNOPSIS¶
parrot_mkalloc <path> <size>
DESCRIPTION¶
parrot_mkalloc creates a new directory with a space allocation. As the name
suggests, the command only runs correctly inside of the Parrot virtual file
system, on file servers where space allocation is enabled.
The path argument gives the new directory to create, and
the size argument indicates how large the space allocation should be.
The latter may use metric units such as K, M, B, etc to indicate kilobytes,
megabytes, gigabytes, and so forth.
OPTIONS¶
- -h
- Show help text.
EXIT STATUS¶
On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero. If the command is
attempted on a filesystem that does not support space allocation, it will give
the following error:
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parrot_mkalloc: This filesystem does not support allocations.
EXAMPLES¶
To create a space allocation of ten gigabytes on a Chirp server:
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% parrot_run bash
% cd /chirp/myserver.somewhere.edu
% parrot_mkalloc bigdir 10G
% exit
COPYRIGHT¶
The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Douglas Thain and
Copyright (C) 2005-2015 The University of Notre Dame. This software is
distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for
details.