Apologies to the list; that remark/criticism on Patrick's tongue-in-
cheek responses was intended for Patrick only, not for the entire list.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Stephen Joyce
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On Thu, 18 May 2000, Crystal wrote:
> on 5/18/2000 4:02 PM, Stephen Joyce at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 18 May 2000, Patrik Schindler wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Richard Bates wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'M new at this,
> >>> I would like to restrict how much disk space a Appletalk user can
> >>> access/write to.
> >>> Prefferable a round number like 200MB
> >>> Is this possible.
> >>
> >> It's possible to restrict the allocated space per mount point for each
> >> user with a thingie named quotas which are available in most flavours of
> >> unices. Netatalk uses this quota restrictions.
> >>
> >> :wq! PoC
> >
> > Patrick,
> >
> > I'll be the first to admit that I am new to this list; I have only been
> > lurking for a few weeks. But I must ask, is it necessary for you to rude,
> > impolite, sarcastic, and at times downright condescending to your fellow
> > readers?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stephen
> > --
> > Stephen Joyce
> Actually, I did not interpret Patrick's response as being rude or snide -
> perhaps a bit too brief to be useful. But the topic of setting quotas on a
> Unix system is too involved to be discussed on the *netatalk* list. Server
> configuration information not dealing specifically with Netatalk is probably
> better posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Richard,
> As a useful resource, the Linux Documentation Project keeps an excellent
> list of "How-To's", including quotas at
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/index.html
>
> The quota link in PDF format is at
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/pdf/Quota.pdf
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Crystal Morillo
>
>
