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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:25:45 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: question regarding quotas
Message-ID:  <20030630052545.GP30324@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030629221236.V57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
References:  <3EFFF7AD.1060308@tele-kom.ru> <20030629221236.V57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>

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In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote:
> > So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file
> > N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to
> > your directory. You should be solved then.
> 
> Yes, I am familiar with this way of solving the problem, its just
> that I would like to try to avoid having all those partitions mounted
> (even if they are just vn-partitions) because then it is very hard to
> increase or decrease those quota sizes - you have to dump, dd a
> bigger file, re-vnconfig, then restore ... very time consuming.

If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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