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Re: quotacheck on 6.0_BETA



EF> So I guess there's no way of temporarily disabling (the enforcement
EF> of) quotas with the new system?
DH> Right. It was in an early version of the libquota design but got
DH> removed by popular demand.
DH> 
DH> (Remember that you can't really do this usefully with the old quotas
DH> anyway; if you disable quotas with quotaoff while stuff is using the
DH> fs, you need to run quotacheck before enabling them again, and you
DH> pretty much need to drop to single-user mode to do that safely.)
Yes, I know. But it once came in handy as a stop-gap-measure when the system
that sets our quotas from LDAP information went mad.


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