Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 14:18:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.minn.net> To: terry@phaeton.artisoft.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: owensc@enc.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: QUOTAS... Message-ID: <199509071918.OAA04960@mpp.minn.net> In-Reply-To: <199509071745.KAA02381@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 7, 95 10:45:47 am
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Regarding what you said about the 'userquota' option, I was under the > > impression that quotas weren't turned on at mount-time, but only when the > > 'quotaon' command is invoked. Am I wrong? > > You had the 'userquota' without and '=' (ie: the correct usage is not > ',userquota,' but ',userquota=/usr/quotas/usr.user,'. > > > Are you suggesting that it is safer if, instead of using the 'userquota' > > option and 'quotaon', we write a small program that turns quotas on using the > > quotactl(2) routine? > > If you look at the fstab man page, you'll see that the default is to place > them at the root of the associated file system (my suggestion to you). > I don't know *what* a blank option does, except perhaps confuse quotacheck(8) > and quotaon(8). Using the "userquota" or "groupquota" options without a '=' defaults to placing the quota.user and quota.group files in the root of the file system you are turning quotas on for. -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"
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