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)