From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Jun 29 22:14:29 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 83E0837B401
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.econolodgetulsa.com (mail.econolodgetulsa.com
	[198.78.66.163])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FB2C43F3F
	for <questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:14:29 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com)
Received: from mail (mail [198.78.66.163])h5U5EQnW020581;
	Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com)
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
To: "Sergey \"DoubleF\" Zaharchenko" <doublef@tele-kom.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3EFFF7AD.1060308@tele-kom.ru>
Message-ID: <20030629221236.V57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:14:29 -0000


Hi,

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote:

> Josh Brooks wrote:
> > So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can
> > grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory.
>
> So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large...
> Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and
> mount to your directory. You should be solved then.

Yes, I am familiar with this way of solving the problem, its just that I
would like to try to avoid having all those partitions mounted (even if
they are just vn-partitions) because then it is very hard to increase or
decrease those quota sizes - you have to dump, dd a bigger file,
re-vnconfig, then restore ... very time consuming.