Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 20:00:58 -0400 From: "Christopher J. Michaels" <cjm2@earthling.net> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting quotas on filesystem Message-ID: <35F07F3A.C27EB279@earthling.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980903164208.382A-100000@beef.cybertouch.org>
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Lanny Baron wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have read the man page on edquota. I just need to understand one
> thing. It speaks of editting soft and hard limits. If for example i want
> the default in the group user to be 10 megs. How would I translate that to
> blocks? 1 block =1024 bytes? Which means setting the hard limit to 9765
> and then the soft limit for 15 megs would be 14,648 ?
>
ACK! I didn't notice this at first. Do you realize that you are setting a
10mb quota for all of user? That means that the total of ALL the files owned
by group user cannot come to more than 10mb!
If I understand your question correctly, you want to enforce this quota upon
each individual user in group user... right? If that's so, I don't know of a
way to do it. But there is something else you can use.
Setup 1 user with the quota's you want and then use:
edquota -p username UID_range.
E.g. say all of your "users" have UIDs between 2000 and 4999, and your
"prototype" user is is "bob". You could type this...
edquota -p bob 2000-4999
Now all users (current and future) with a UID in that range, will have the
same quota as "bob".
Maybe this will answer your question a little better.
> Quotas for group user:
> /home: blocks in use: 450549, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
> inodes in use: 1079, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
>
> If i understand this right, the current quota is 0 nothing.
>
> Thank you for your help
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