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:

parrot_mkalloc: This filesystem does not support allocations.

EXAMPLES¶

To create a space allocation of ten gigabytes on a Chirp server:

% parrot_run bash
% cd /chirp/myserver.somewhere.edu
% parrot_mkalloc bigdir 10G
% exit

COPYRIGHT¶

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

SEE ALSO¶

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Parrot User Manual
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)