From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 7 18:10:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C881514C40 for ; Fri, 7 May 1999 18:10:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA04858; Sat, 8 May 1999 10:40:39 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA53879; Sat, 8 May 1999 10:40:37 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 10:40:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ho Seng Yip Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Disk Quotas Message-ID: <19990508104035.P50800@freebie.lemis.com> References: <000901be865d$f4745de0$80af15a5@oasis> <19990414205320.D23745@lemis.com> <007801be8695$48a56300$29a215a5@oasis> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <007801be8695$48a56300$29a215a5@oasis>; from Ho Seng Yip on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 11:28:14PM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 14 April 1999 at 23:28:14 +0800, Ho Seng Yip wrote: > On Wednesday, April 14, 1999 7:23 PM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> 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? > > 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 ? Not just in their home directorues. > The FreeBSD Handbook mentioned that we can implement quotas by > blocks. How big is the size of a block in MB or bytes ? I'd guess 512 bytes. The documentation isn't exactly overly detailed. 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