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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net>
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Subject: Re: QUOTAS...
To: terry@phaeton.artisoft.com (Terry Lambert)
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:18:02 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: owensc@enc.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org
In-Reply-To: <199509071745.KAA02381@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 7, 95 10:45:47 am
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > Regarding what you said about the 'userquota' option, I was under the 
> > impression that quotas weren't turned on at mount-time, but only when the 
> > 'quotaon' command is invoked.  Am I wrong?
> 
> You had the 'userquota' without and '=' (ie: the correct usage is not
> ',userquota,' but ',userquota=/usr/quotas/usr.user,'.
> 
> > Are you suggesting that it is safer if, instead of using the 'userquota' 
> > option and 'quotaon', we write a small program that turns quotas on using the
> > quotactl(2) routine?
> 
> If you look at the fstab man page, you'll see that the default is to place
> them at the root of the associated file system (my suggestion to you).
> I don't know *what* a blank option does, except perhaps confuse quotacheck(8)
> and quotaon(8).

Using the "userquota" or "groupquota" options without a '=' defaults
to placing the quota.user and quota.group files in the root of
the file system you are turning quotas on for.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@mpp.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"