Subject: Re: Has anyone found a way to implement quotas with MFS?
To: Rick Dante <rdante@pnet.net>
From: Matthew N. Dodd <winter@jurai.net>
List: current-users
Date: 04/26/1996 04:15:25
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Rick Dante wrote:
> What I do is keep disk copies of the quota db files and have rc copy these
> over to the mfs before quotacheck.  Then I have a script copy the db files
> to disk whenever I run edquota.  I have it print out what it's doing too,
> so if the script ever gets hosed,  I will "miss" the verbose output.

You shouldn't have to copy them to the filesystem, as you can
manually specify the location of the quota files in /etc/fstab

Throw them on /var somewhere...

> Just thought I'd let you guys know in case anybody else is interested in
> doing the same.

Heh, now if we could get quotas over NFS...

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