From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: Disk Quotas (was Re: New feature for the filesystems.) Date: 14 Apr 1993 20:33:00 GMT
In article <C5HMw4.1vI@crdnns.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
> I've never seen space deleted for you, you just can't write until you
>get down below soft limit. Of course that may be an option, but I've not
>found it in the docs. The sysadm is usually the dark force, through
>scripts.
Yes I haven't seen a system yet that properly handles hard quotas. Most
systems will still let you write to /tmp so you just direct the normal
programs to put thier output to there and then take care of them before
logging out. For the few systems that I've seen that aren't fooled by
placing the file in /tmp, they are fooled if you do a chown on the file
before you exceed your quota. Installing a hard quota is by no means a
simple task. For the most part, if you are using a file system that reserves
space for root, these shouldn't be neccissary.
Bill