Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:45:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@phaeton.artisoft.com> To: owensc@enc.edu (Charles Owens) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: QUOTAS... Message-ID: <199509071745.KAA02381@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950907113506.216B-100000@itsdsv1.enc.edu> from "Charles Owens" at Sep 7, 95 11:40:35 am
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> 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). Use the quotactl(2) interface if you aren't going to use 'userquota' the way it is documented. Do *NOT* use the example in the fstab man page as a working example of relocating a quota file to /var (it should work, but is subject to the locking issues I reported). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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