> > Are quotas for root simply not possible ?
>
> They don't make sense. Root is only for administration of your system,
> and here quotas don't make sense. In fact, as root has all rights.
Wrong. They do. Example: A root job running weird filling up all disk space
in /var, keeps all the important daemons like mail/log/news etc from
working.
It looks as if it is supported in the 3.xx quota-utils,
"New file format allows using quotas for 32-bit uids / gids, setting quotas
for root."
S.
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