From: Rico Pajarola <rp@servium.ch>
To: david@kdbarto.org
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Quotas - did anyone ever use them?
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 16:27:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACwAiQkdMa36-sj4X5_SCc4QznOjh3-PxnkK-Dt4EoK6W8Y2xw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <975B93B6-AD7C-41B5-A14D-2DE4FEFAD3A6@kdbarto.org>
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Every university that allowed "general" student access used disk quotas. I
remember 1MB file quota on the system I had access to. And of course we
found all kinds of tricks to get around those quotas (e.g. "giving away"
large files to someone with leftover quota), which is why on many systems
you're not allowed to chown files if you're not root.
On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:58 PM David <david@kdbarto.org> 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
>
>
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-30 13:49 David
2019-05-30 14:23 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2019-05-30 14:26 ` Dan Cross
2019-05-30 14:27 ` Rico Pajarola [this message]
2019-05-31 7:16 ` George Ross
2019-05-30 14:29 ` Robert Brockway
2019-05-30 14:34 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-05-30 14:48 ` John P. Linderman
2019-05-30 14:57 ` Jim Geist
2019-05-30 14:55 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2019-05-30 15:00 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:28 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-30 19:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-30 20:42 ` Warner Losh
2019-05-30 22:23 ` George Michaelson
2019-05-31 1:36 ` alan
2019-05-31 19:07 ` Pete Wright
2019-05-31 20:43 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 20:59 ` Pete Wright
2019-06-01 0:30 ` reed
2019-06-04 13:50 ` Tony Finch
2019-05-30 16:04 Noel Chiappa
2019-05-30 16:48 ` KatolaZ
2019-05-30 17:42 ` ron
2019-05-31 0:21 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 0:37 ` Larry McVoy
2019-05-31 0:42 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-05-31 15:05 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-05-31 16:06 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 16:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-05-31 16:38 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-05-31 15:55 ` Rico Pajarola
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