From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=FROM_EXCESS_BASE64, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 466b0522 for ; Thu, 30 May 2019 15:02:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A32FC9B846; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:02:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A0DA9B7FB; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:01:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id C974D9B7FB; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:01:56 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 402 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:01:55 AEST Received: from hekla.abc.se (hekla.abc.se [62.80.200.187]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5CB49B6B2 for ; Fri, 31 May 2019 01:01:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eeyore.my.domain (83-233-145-38.cust.bredband2.com [83.233.145.38]) by hekla.abc.se (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id fd51fb2f (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO); Thu, 30 May 2019 16:55:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (eeyore.my.domain [local]) by eeyore.my.domain (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id ebad423c; Thu, 30 May 2019 16:55:10 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 16:55:10 +0200 From: Andreas Kusalananda =?iso-8859-1?B?S+Ro5HJp?= To: David Message-ID: <20190530145510.GA58792@eeyore.my.domain> Mail-Followup-To: David , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society References: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.0 (2019-05-25) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 06:49:05AM -0700, David wrote: > I think it was BSD 4.1 that added quotas to the disk system, and I was just wondering if anyone ever used them, in academia or industry. As a user and an admin I never used this and, while I thought it was interesting, just figured that the users would sort it out amongst themselves. Which they mostly did. > > So, anyone ever use this feature? > > David At my current workplace, we use quotas on shared systems (Linux compute clusters and multi-user interactive login nodes). When I was at univeristy (early 1990's), the SunOS and Solaris systems at the department had the home directories mounted over NFS, and there were quotas in effect on the file server. On VM systems that I set up privately, where /home is not on a separate partition, I use quotas for my own account (because sometimes I want to use a really tiny disk, and limiting the size of /home is easier with quotas than through partitioning off the correct size on the first try). I have access to a shared non-work related OpenBSD and Linux system which does *not* use quotas, and it makes me slightly nervous because I don't actually know how much disk space I'm *allowed* to use without being told off by a human operator. It would have been better if they had had quotas enabled and then made it easy to ask for more space thourgh a simple email to the admins. -- Kusalananda Sweden