On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:03 -0400 Nikolaus Rath <[email protected]> wrote:
> Weldon Goree <[email protected]> writes: > > If only ext*fs supported quotas... > > Aren't quotas only for non-root and per file system? I think we're > already safe from non-root filling up / because of the reserved 5%. Yes, but I was thinking of a multi-user install (that being, after all, what I administer for a living). I like the ability to keep ~fred and ~joe from locking each other out of /tmp (yes, there are ways to do that with tmpfs, but I have to think about them, unlike quotaing a "normal" filesystem). Then again, with virtualization the days of multiple-interactive-user installations may be coming to an end. Cheers, Weldon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

