Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 17:08:43 -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: <20030629220843.GA30324@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030629150035.K57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> References: <20030629014542.GA84766@dan.emsphone.com> <20030629150035.K57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
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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
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