From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 15:08:45 2003 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 367A437B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E5243FD7 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:08:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5TM8hED058635; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:08:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:08:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Josh Brooks Message-ID: <20030629220843.GA30324@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030629014542.GA84766@dan.emsphone.com> <20030629150035.K57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030629150035.K57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question regarding quotas 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: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:08:45 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Quotas are per-user, not per-directory. Any files those users > > create, anywhere in that filesystem, will contribute to their > > quota. Files created by other userids but placed in those > > directories will count against the other user's quota. > > > > Basically what happens with per-directory quotas is that the users > > learn not to put files in their homedir :) They end up finding > > someplace that they can write to outside their homedir and put > > files there instead. > > Thank you. Do per-directory quotas exist (in any fashion) in FreeBSD > ? I am looking for a way to do per-directory, even if it is a hack > of some kind... The only thing I can think of that might work: if you didn't mind a whole lot of filesystems, you could create a filesystem per directory you wanted to control. Then the filessytem size itself would be the "quota". -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com