Re: disk usage checking

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:22:44PM -0500, Keith Mastin wrote:
> >Hi Forrest,
> >Thank you for your suggestion! Is it possible to setup quotas for a large number
> >of accounts (for example 100 user accounts) one time instead of setup one by
> >one? 
> 
> Yes. You set up quotas on the file system rather than the directory. 
> Recommend that you have a /home filesystem rather than an all-in-one 
> install where /home resides on teh / filesystem.
Not only is it recommended but quotas on a filesystem where /home is on
the same partition as / is dangerous in that setting up the quotas may
damage tour root file system when checkquota is run.
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