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From: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User Quotas  -- Need Help
Date: 10 Aug 1996 12:30:44 GMT
Organization: CICDO
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References: <4uh4q1$20k@jaxnet.southeast.net>
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In article <4uh4q1$20k@jaxnet.southeast.net>,  <jwilds@jax-inter.net> wrote:
>I've got freebsd boxes up and running and for just my own use have
>done well. Now I have run into a problem. I'm trying to enable
>internet accounts which isn't a problm excet for the fact that a user
>could fill the the filesystem overnight. Does anyone know what the
>format is of the file quotas? The online manuals talk of this file but
>never give a format or how its created.

You have to enable quotas on each filesystem that you want to
support them (in /etc/fstab ?).  Then, look into edquota et al.

--don