[wplug] suggestions on Unix/Linux machines at Pitt labs?

gll6+ at pitt.edu gll6+ at pitt.edu
Sun Apr 17 00:17:28 EDT 2005


Juan,
I am also a pitt student in oakland.  As a quick fix, you can up your quota in the unix system to 20 MB with a call to computer accounts services (624-9343)
After 20 MB you need a professor or ta to increase the quota for you.  For instance I am finishing up cs1550 intro to OS and we code in nachos, so the ta increased my quota from 20 to 50 MB.

I doubt you will need much more than 15MB for anything...altho you didnt specify what you actually need the space for.

The labs are usually empty because many people find it easier to ssh into the solaris system via javalab.cs.pitt.edu

As for you advising professionals how to do their jobs more efficiently...by means of relaying suggestions not your own...from a novice standpoint... is a little rediculous.

Hope this helps,
Gary Lotito

 
--- Begin Orginal Message ---
From: "Juan Zuluaga" <jz31416 at yahoo.com>
To:   <wplug at wplug.org>
CC: 
Date: 4/16/2005 11:18:06 PM

The Pitt campus in Oakland has some computer labs with
Solaris and Linux machines. 
   As a user I get frustrated by the fact that the
space I have available is only the same as my space at
the unixs.cis.pitt.edu shared system. If that space is
just 10Mb, and I already occupy 5 Mbs with webpages
etc, I am just left with 5Mbs (space that gets also
reduced, of course, each time I log, with the
gnome/cde/mozillatemp files etc). 
   3.5 Mbs is no decent space to do anything. Should I
be concerned for having to work in /tmp ? I mean,
those desktops are very decent machines that should
have plenty of space in hard drive. 
   No wonder those computer labs are empty. There must
be a way in which Pitt/Sun/RedHat techs could set up
those machines differently, allowing users have more
space. 
   As I would like to make an informed suggestion to
them, what is the technical issue and how could it be
theoretically be solved? 

 
   
   

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