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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to find whether a file is local or remote file? Post 302125889 by jackfds on Monday 9th of July 2007 01:38:24 AM
Old 07-09-2007
thanx Neo! Its true that df command would help but i m interested in a system call that could simply tell whether the given file is remote or local.
The stat() system call does not report on this info.
 

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rquotad

rquotad(1M)															       rquotad(1M)

NAME

       rquotad - remote quota server

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       is an RPC server that returns quotas for a user of a local file system currently mounted by a remote machine by means of NFS (see rpc(3N)).
       The results are used by to display user quotas for remote file systems (see quota(1)).

       might not work for local filesystems which support a 64-bit quota file format.  The Q_QUOTAINFO command of the system call can be  used	to
       determine the quota file format supported by a particular filesystem. (See quotactl(2)).

       is normally invoked by (see inetd(1M)).

AUTHOR

       Disk Quotas were developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.

FILES

       Quota statistics static storage for a file system, where
				directory is the root of the file system.

SEE ALSO

       inetd(1M), quotactl(2), rpc(3N), services(4), quota(5), nfs(7).

																       rquotad(1M)
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