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) 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.

SEE ALSO

       •   Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation

       •   Parrot User Manual

       •   parrot_run(1)  parrot_run_hdfs(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)