Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:56:24 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: Alan Batie <batie@agora.rdrop.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quotas? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951125185241.6790A-100000@ncc-1701-d> In-Reply-To: <m0tJVpq-0002SWC@agora.rdrop.com>
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On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Alan Batie wrote:
> I'm building a new 2.1.0 system, and it appears that quotas are not
> functional. I do have "options QUOTA" in the config file, but I have
> imposed quotas on a filesystem, and can go in and create files exceeding
> the quota. "quota -v" shows nothing until I run quotacheck, at which
> point "quota -v" shows the correct values, but I can still use additional
> space, and the values are not updated until the next "quotacheck".
Ok, well, in the /etc/rc file, look for lines that look like this:
-----CUT HERE
# Check the quotas
if [ "X${check_quotas}" = X"YES" ]; then
echo -n 'checking quotas:'
quotacheck -a
echo ' done.'
quotaon -a
fi
-----CUT HERE
They MAY or MAY NOT be commented-out; if they are, then remove the comments.
This code runs the quota checker at startup, and turns quota's on -- from
there, the system (kernel) keeps track of quotas by itself. But, you now
have to tell it which FILESYSTEMS to enable quotas for.
Look in /etc/fstab. For each filesystem you want to enable quotas for,
add a "userquota" and/or "groupquota" entry to the 4th field of the
fstab. Note the example below, this comes from my freebsd box... I have
quota's on only ONE filesystem, that is /dev/sd0s2b (which is mounted
under /home).
-----CUT HERE
/dev/sd0a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s2e /usr ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s1 /dos msdos rw 0 0
/dev/cd0a /cdrom cd9660 ro 0 0
/dev/wd0s1a /news ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s2f /news/in.coming ufs rw 1 1
/dev/sd0s2b /home ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 1 1
proc /proc procfs ro 0 0
/dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0
-----CUT HERE
Then just REBOOT, run 'edquota <user>' for each <user> on your system, set
some reassonable quotas, log in as one of the <user>'s and try being a disk
hog. You'll quickly find out that this is not very possible.
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