Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 09:20:29 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> To: frank@torontowiredsolutions.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Quotas Message-ID: <200003301520.JAA10468@plains.NoDak.edu>
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> Now I want to limit the users to only 2 Megs of space. What is it that I
> have to put in the hard block limits to get to 2 megs of space.
>
> I tried putting soft to 0 and hard to 2000 and I save the vi session
> edquota put me in. I then try to upload a 190 kb file and it keeps telling
> me that I have exceeded my disk quota and does not try to upload the file.
The quota system counts disk BLOCKS (actually file fragments). The number
of bytes in a block is determined by how you made your filesytem. To
determine this use the command disklabel(8):
# disklabel -r da0 # or wd0 for IDE
look for the partition that the quota system is mounted upon and see what
is the file fragment size:
...
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
...
e: 1606500 1686825 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 105 - 204)
^^^^
I will assume 1K/per block from here out...
sounds like you set things correctly, though I would agrue that 2048 (K) blocks
is 2MB. it is possible that this user has files in other subdirectories in
this partition. First use the program quota(1):
# quota -v USER
to see how many blocks the quota facility believes this person is using.
("repquota -a" is easier, if you are doing this for several people).
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