From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 29 22:25:47 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 CE64637B40E for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F4343FAF for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:25:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h5U5PjB8096169; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:25:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 00:25:45 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Josh Brooks Message-ID: <20030630052545.GP30324@dan.emsphone.com> References: <3EFFF7AD.1060308@tele-kom.ru> <20030629221236.V57224-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030629221236.V57224-100000@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: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 05:25:48 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > > 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. If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com