From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 27 15:25:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF9816A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:25:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CAE43D46 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:25:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0RFPl9A005871; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:25:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:25:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Peter Risdon Message-ID: <20050127152546.GF31269@dan.emsphone.com> References: <1106836379.832.69.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1106836379.832.69.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: disk quotas and nfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:25:51 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 27), Peter Risdon said: > If machine A exports an nfs filesystem and machines B and C both > mount it as, say, /usr/home then how is it best to enforce common > disk quotas? If machine A is enforcing quotas and all the password > files are synchronised so user uids and gids are identical across all > the machines, will this be sufficient? Yep. Also make sure you have enabled rquotad in inetd.conf on the server so the "quota" command works on the clients. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com