Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-30 Thread Josh Brooks
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :) Reading the archives, it seems as if you would use growfs, but then run into performance problems because you did not defragment afterward (and there is no defrag utility for UFS). Something about the

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi Dan, On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: Quotas are per-user, not per-directory. Any files those users create, anywhere in that filesystem, will contribute to their quota. Files created by other userids but placed in those directories will count against the other user's quota.

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello. On 29 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only thing I can think of that might work: if you didn't mind a whole lot of filesystems, you could create a filesystem per directory you wanted to control. Then the filessytem size itself would be

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Josh Brooks wrote: [ ... ] Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: /export/data7/homes/jerry and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't have a filesystem with per-directory quota support.

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Ryan Thompson
Josh Brooks wrote to Lowell Gilbert: Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: /export/data7/homes/jerry and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't support any filesystems that do this

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Sergey \DoubleF\ Zaharchenko
Josh Brooks wrote: So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to your

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi, On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: Josh Brooks wrote: So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to your directory. You should be solved then. Yes, I am

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:25:45AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it,

question regarding quotas

2003-06-28 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello! I have a group of 5 users that I want to set up quotas for - their home directories are: /export/data1/user1 /export/data1/user2 /export/data1/user3 /export/data1/user4 /export/data1/user5 And they will be given free reign to fill up those directories however they choose. At the same

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 28), Josh Brooks said: I have a group of 5 users that I want to set up quotas for - their home directories are: /export/data1/user1 /export/data1/user2 /export/data1/user3 /export/data1/user4 /export/data1/user5 And they will be given free reign to fill up