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Subject: Re: Quotas?
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> From owner-freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Sat Nov 25 22:06:43 1995
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 18:56:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
> X-Sender: d_burr@ncc-1701-d
> To: Alan Batie <batie@agora.rdrop.com>
> cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Quotas?
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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.
> 
> Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212
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Is this info in a FAQ somewhere. I looked for it and found very little info.

Jerry