From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 4:25:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D8515078 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 04:25:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA20750; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:53:23 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id UAA24256; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:53:21 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990414205320.D23745@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:53:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ho Seng Yip , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk Quotas References: <000901be865d$f4745de0$80af15a5@oasis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <000901be865d$f4745de0$80af15a5@oasis>; from Ho Seng Yip on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 06:01:58PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 14 April 1999 at 18:01:58 +0800, Ho Seng Yip wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently running FreeBSD 3.1 and am looking for a way to restrict the > amount of disk space a user can consume whether for mails or FTP. I looked > into the handbook and it suggested compiling the kernel with the statement, > 'options QUOTA'. > > Besides using this method, may I know if there are other ways of restricting > disk space comsumption ? You could also restrict the size of the file system, but it's not a good way to go. What's your problem with quotas? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message