From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 14 9:39:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iron.singnet.com.sg (iron.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FF614FCA for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 09:39:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hsengyip@mbox3.singnet.com.sg) Received: from oasis (qtns00931.singnet.com.sg [165.21.162.41]) by iron.singnet.com.sg (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA24123; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:37:16 +0800 (SGT) Message-ID: <007801be8695$48a56300$29a215a5@oasis> Reply-To: "Ho Seng Yip" From: "Ho Seng Yip" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <000901be865d$f4745de0$80af15a5@oasis> <19990414205320.D23745@lemis.com> Subject: Re: Disk Quotas Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:28:14 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, It's not really a problem but rather, a few questions here. I have enabled quotas for the filesystem /usr for individual users, will this in turn restrict the amount of disk space in their home directories that they can consume ? The FreeBSD Handbook mentioned that we can implement quotas by blocks. How big is the size of a block in MB or bytes ? Thanks. Regards, Seng Yip ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey To: Ho Seng Yip ; FreeBSD Questions Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:23 PM Subject: Re: Disk Quotas > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message