https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-dsquota-diskspace-consumed-calculation/m-p/178519#M72959 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/53187/prateekbehera26.html" nodeid="53187">@Prateek Behera</A><P> The disk quota in your case works fine as expected. HDFS by default has a replication factor of <STRONG>3</STRONG> as you can see in the 3rd column of your CLI output. </P><PRE>500MB *3 (replication factor) = 1.5 GB &gt; 1GB (quota). </PRE> Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:13:05 GMT xyao 2018-01-03T02:13:05Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-dsquota-diskspace-consumed-calculation/m-p/178518#M72958 <P>Hello,</P><P>For a directory in HDFS, I have set dsquota as 1GB but when I try to copy a 500 MB file to that directory. I get a exception == <STRONG>copyFromLocal: The DiskSpace quota of /user/prateek is exceeded: quota = 1073741824 B = 1 GB but diskspace consumed = 1305477120 B = 1.22 GB.</STRONG></P><P>The directory already contains four files.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="47401-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-41402-pm.png" style="width: 1254px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19474i992523B7C9118B3A/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="47401-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-41402-pm.png" alt="47401-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-41402-pm.png" /></span></P><P><STRONG>1048576 /user/prateek/file1.txt </STRONG></P><P><STRONG>10485760 /user/prateek/file2.txt </STRONG></P><P><STRONG>10485760 /user/prateek/file3.txt </STRONG></P><P><STRONG>10485760 /user/prateek/file4.txt</STRONG></P><P>How can we calculate the diskspace consumed(i.e.1.22GB in this case)?</P><P>Thanks in advance</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="47399-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-34749-pm.png" style="width: 2876px;"><img src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/19475i581C180AB593DDA5/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="47399-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-34749-pm.png" alt="47399-screen-shot-2018-01-01-at-34749-pm.png" /></span></P> Sun, 18 Aug 2019 09:31:39 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-dsquota-diskspace-consumed-calculation/m-p/178518#M72958 prateekbehera26 2019-08-18T09:31:39Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-dsquota-diskspace-consumed-calculation/m-p/178519#M72959 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/53187/prateekbehera26.html" nodeid="53187">@Prateek Behera</A><P> The disk quota in your case works fine as expected. HDFS by default has a replication factor of <STRONG>3</STRONG> as you can see in the 3rd column of your CLI output. </P><PRE>500MB *3 (replication factor) = 1.5 GB &gt; 1GB (quota). </PRE> Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:13:05 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/HDFS-dsquota-diskspace-consumed-calculation/m-p/178519#M72959 xyao 2018-01-03T02:13:05Z