From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 14:50:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usagi.cts.com (usagi.cts.com [209.68.192.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA33C118E3 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:50:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from preeper@cts.com) Received: from sgt361.cts.com (gt361.cts.com [204.212.158.91]) by usagi.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA12685 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:50:53 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990223143757.042c1600@crash.cts.com> X-Sender: preeper@crash.cts.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:37:57 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Jerry Preeper Subject: Re: quota questions In-Reply-To: <199902232153.QAA27164@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <3.0.5.32.19990223120404.042b0110@crash.cts.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I have quotas enabled on my web server and started playing around with some >> of the information as I have started to get to less than 1GB free on the >> hard drive in order to start cleaning some stuff up off the server that's >> not needed. > >Now I'm not one to accuse someone of being too cautious, but you're >worried about having less than 1 GB on a 4.5 GB drive? That's 22.2% of >your total space. > I know it's still plenty of room and maybe I'm being too cautious, but I'm also putting some new sites on the server and a fairly large database on one of the existing sites so I'm trying to plan ahead a little. >> 2) Should the sum of all the block limits used by users in repquota -a >> (shows 2887728) be equal to the number of blocks used (1K blocks) in a df >> -i output (shows 2871052)? What would the difference be? > >Do the system users (root, bin mainly) have quotas? Do users without >quotas show in the totals? (I'm really asking, I dunno.) That's about >16 MB. Is there one (or a few) normal user who got left off a list >somewhere? > System users do not have quotas, but do show up in repquota -a which I believe shows all users, whether they have quotas or not, but I'm not 100% sure of that. I wasn't aware that quotas were marked as broken in 2.2.x (didn't look) but I'm using them on a 2.2.6-RELEASE system and they seem to work (because I get complaints when people can't upload any more or mail gets bounced because someone sent them a 10meg file). >> TIA for any assistance. > >Glad to help. I'd like to hear anyone's experience with quotas. They >are marked as broken in 2.2.x, but I'm thinking of installing them any >way on a mailserver to keeps some problems I've had from reoccuring. >-- >Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message