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Re: Disk quotas in Linux



Shay Rojansky <roji@cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>  Hi.
>  
>  Has anyone tried to impose disk restrictions on users? Could you
>  please help me set up a quota system up?

I'm using quota-1.33 suite since 1.1.* . With the latest kernels, use
kdiffs-1.2.3-quota+acct patch (look for it with archie). It patches 1.2.13
cleanly except one file; do it by hand or I can send you the correction.

There is an alternative quota suite from http://www.cistron.nl/~mvw/ . Last time
I checked it, it was very buggy concerning NFS. If you plan to use quotas on
local disk only, it may be ok. It has patches to 1.3.* also.

Anyway, both are _really_ beta and you have to run quotacheck regularly (I do it
from cron once per hour), otherwise results got by `quota' and `du' can differ
significantly :-(.

Evgeny

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