From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 25 15:54:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (ekgr-dsl2-254.citlink.net [207.173.226.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E51937B47A for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:54:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.248]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A6DAEE6EF for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:54:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <016c01c1be57$bfa4b800$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: Subject: Disk Quota Concepts Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:54:21 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have spent most of the day trying to impletment a ftp server as described at http://www.freebsddiary.org/ftp-anonymous.php. Step one says to either create a partition for incoming or use quotas to limit the space used. The examples go on using the partition option but I chose to use quotas and have followed the directions in the Handbook. I have a 4 GB disk that I wish to devote to ftp. I'm not sure if my vocabulary is correct but I'll try. I created 1 partition on 1 slice using the entire drive and mounted it as /ftp. So /dev/da1s1h is now mounted as /ftp. Next I created /ftp/etc, /ftp/pub, and /ftp/incoming as suggested in the example. After that, I went on to try and implement a quota for the ftp account on /ftp/incoming. But from everything I've read, quotas can only be implemented at the file system level which in this case would be /ftp? Does this mean I can not use quotas to limit the amount of space that can be used in /ftp/incoming? I chose not to create a separate partition for /ftp/incoming, thinking that by using quotas, I could reallocate space for it as needed without being locked in as I would by creating a separate partition. So what are my options? My goal is to imit the maximum amount of space available on /ftp/incoming while leaving the rest of the drive available for ftp downloads. Thanks for your time, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message