[net.unix] Need help with disk quotas

donna@casey.UUCP (07/02/86)

I need help with quota.  I'm working with (or against) BSD 4.2 on a VAX 11/780.

How do I delete a user's entry from the 'quotas'?  I've used edquota to add and
change quotas, and repquota and quota(1) to report on quotas, but I can't find
anything about deleting quota entries.  (And if I set the quotas to 0, the 
user isn't restricted, but given unlimited access!)


No flames if the answer is obvious, please.  I'm learning as fast as I can.....


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chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/07/86)

In article <76@casey.UUCP> donna@casey.UUCP (Donna Hrynkiw) writes:
>How do I delete a user's entry from the 'quotas'?  I've used edquota
>to add and change quotas, and repquota and quota(1) to report on
>quotas, but I can't find anything about deleting quota entries.
>(And if I set the quotas to 0, the user isn't restricted, but given
>unlimited access!)

Perhaps I misunderstand.  What difference should there be between
`no quota' (a `deleted' entry means `no quota' to me) and `unlimited
access'?  In this case `quota' means `limit'; `no quota' must then
mean `no limit'.

If you mean to keep a user from creating any files on a given file
system, you must restrict the file system, not the user.  If this
is not feasible, a quota of one file and one block seems a small
price to pay.
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