[Wylug-help] [URGENT DEFINITIVE INFO NEEDED] Filesystem Quotas on Linux

[FrankShuteshute@esperance.demon.co.uk]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:53:14PM +0100, davef@gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:26:16PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:24:13PM +0100, davef@gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
> > >
> > > Anyone got the definitive line on how you setup up quotas (from the
> > > beginning) in Linux?
> > 
> > less /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Quota
> > 
> > looks like it's the definitive guide.
> 
> And rather old  (1977) ... Perhaps I should have pinted out that I had already
> checked in the obvious places, before asking the group.

1977? Surely you exaggerate ;-)

It's still listed at the LDP (not as unmaintained) so I assume it is
still relevant. FWIW, I seem to have installed a lot of the the
programs it talks about on my RH6.1 workstation (although I don't
use quotas):

$ apropos quota
edquota (8)          - edit user quotas
quota (1)            - display disk usage and limits
quotacheck (8)       - scan a file system for disk usages
quotactl (2)         - manipulate disk quotas
quotaon, quotaoff (8) - turn file system quotas on and off
repquota (8)         - summarize quotas for a file system
rquota (3)           - implement quotas on remote machines
rquotad, rpc.rquotad (8) - remote quota server

> The mini howto is old and appears at variance with other, more recent
> stuff i've read.

?! I suppose the answer is to suck it and see.

-- 

 Frank 
 
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