[Samba] Mac/Samba capacity detection problem

[Carlos Knowlton]

I tried the quota option, that did the trick!

thank you!
Carlos

AndyLiebman at aol.com wrote:

> Your problem is the following...
>  
> OS X 10.3.x can't cope with seeing Samba shares that are larger than 2 
> TB. If the Mac sees anything larger, in the "info" listing on the 
> share, it will tell you the true size (i.e., 2.8 TB), but then it will 
> tell you there is 0 space left.
>  
> Don't get me started on what a piece of (fill in the blank) Macs are 
> for networking. And Netatalk is no picnic either. You'll have the same 
> problem with large shares and AFP.
>  
> Anyway, the solution is to either:
>  
> a)  partition your hard drive so that any given share can't have more 
> than 2 TB of space
> or
> b)  use quotas, and set the quota for the user or group that owns the 
> share to be smaller than 2 TB.
>  
> I use option b. Works like a charm. Took me about 4 months to realize 
> this was the problem. Hope I can save you some headaches and heartaches.
> Andy Liebman
>  
> In a message dated 3/23/2005 5:17:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> cknowlton at update.fsix.com writes:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     We are having a problem between
>     Linux 2.6.9-prep #12 SMP Mon Dec 6 12:08:34 CST 2004 x86_64 x86_64
>     x86_64 GNU/Linux
>     (Samba version 3.0.9-1.fc3)
>
>     and
>
>     MAC OS X 10.3.5
>     Samba version 3.0.0rc2
>
>     Basically the issue is that the Mac reports the Linux share as being
>     full, and won't allow files to be copied.
>
>     We are able to work around it using this method:
>     Create a folder on the Linux share with the same name as the
>     folder to
>     be copied from MAC.
>     Then when you try copy and paste, it will let you select "Replace".
>
>
>     Here's what I'm getting with the DF command:
>
>     Linux server with plenty of free space:
>
>     [root at TeranII ~]# df -H
>     Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
>
>     /dev/mapper/vg00-lv00
>                                  5.0T   2.3T   2.8T  45%    /home
>
>
>     Macs with mounted  Linux drive shows erroneous drive space:
>
>     [cinemac:/sbin] root# df -H
>     Filesystem                                           Size   Used 
>     Avail
>     Capacity  Mounted on
>     //USERNAME at AMOS/SOURCE          602G   2.2T  -1.6T   365%   
>     /Volumes/Source
>
>
>     sincityedit:/Volumes/source root# df -H
>     Filesystem                                         Size   Used  Avail
>     Capacity  Mounted on
>     //USERNAME at AMOS/SOURCE        602G   2.2T  -1.6T   365%   
>     /Volumes/source
>
>
>     Windows mapped drive to Linux shows  correct free space:
>
>     Directory of Y:\
>
>     03/22/2005  09:51a      <DIR>          .
>     12/30/2004  10:00a      <DIR>          ..
>     03/22/2005  10:16a      <DIR>          _Admin
>
>                    0 File(s)              0 bytes
>                    3 Dir(s)  2,765,958,938,624 bytes free
>
>
>     I'm not sure what I can do to isolate the problem.  Can you give
>     me some
>     advice?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Carlos
>
>