From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 4 19:45:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA13911 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line16.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA13906 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:45:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA06885; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 19:44:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jason McKay cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blocks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Jason McKay wrote: > 1. What is the difference between soft and hard quotas in the edquota A 'soft' quota is space the user is allowed to use for some time period (a week usually) which afterwards becomes a hard limit until they drop below the soft limit. > 2. The quotas are measured in blocks ... hows manys blocks are a megabyte? 1 block is 512 bytes, so there are 2000 blocks in a megabyte. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo