Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!nenaas From: nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Quota... How can you live without it? Message-ID: Date: 3 May 91 07:55:42 GMT References: <1991May2.194652.4892@odin.diku.dk> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: carllp@diku.dk's message of 2 May 91 19:46:52 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ulrik In article <1991May2.194652.4892@odin.diku.dk> carllp@diku.dk (Carl-Lykke Pedersen) writes: HPUX doesn't seem to have support for quota on filesystems, and there doesn't seem to be any other way to control users diskconsumptions. Is this correct? (I am new to HPUX, so I might have overlooked something). How am I supposed to control the diskusage? I fear my users will snarf all available diskspace in less than 50 minutes if there is no quota-system to stop them. Regards Carl-Lykke -- Carl-Lykke Pedersen (System Administrator) Email: carllp@diku.dk DIKU (Dept. Comp. Sci. Univ. Copenhagen) Fax: +45 31 39 02 21 Universitetsparken 1 DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark There seems to be support for disk quotas in HPUX 8 (at least for 720). Page 5-53 ff. in Systems Administration Tasks Nils-Eivind Naas ISAF,Oslo nen@isaf.no or nenaas@ulrik.uio.no