Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:27:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: diegoefe@hotmail.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question from an Argentinian developer Message-ID: <20021129192744.GG1092@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20021128233310.75897.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021128233310.75897.qmail@web41008.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 2002-11-28 17:33, Diego Efe <diegoefe@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I've started a little program to try to manage filesystem quotas > whitout having to manually edit (with $EDITOR) the parameters. quotactl(2) should be all you need. > Investigating I found out that I have the quotactl() function to do > the job and the statfs() call to retrieve filesystem information, > but here's the question. > > I'm having problems with the values that the statfs retrieves. I've > been comparing mi values with the ones returned by the webmin > (webmin.org) utility, who in turn calls the edquota, quotacheck, > etc. functions and can't understand the system. In some cases seems > to work using statfs->f_blocks * dqb_curblocks and the like but, to > finally ask the question: > > I have made the whole circuit of FreeBSD documentation, really, but > still can't understand the values. Is there a question somewhere above? You have described parts of what you need to write your own program to handle quotas. But without seeing either the program you have, or a very detailed description of how it works, all one can tell you is "Go on, it's not a bad idea" :/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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