Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!barilvm!technion!aer7101 From: AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET (Zvika Bar-Deroma) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: disk quota Message-ID: <91136.145258AER7101@TECHNION.BITNET> Date: 16 May 91 14:34:57 GMT References: <1991May13.185928.26704@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <81533@bu.edu> <1991May14.155119.40931@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Distribution: na Organization: TECHNION - Israel Institute of Technology. Lines: 31 In article <1991May14.155119.40931@slate.mines.colorado.edu>, bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Bob Ware) says: > >In article <81533@bu.edu> jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes: >... >> >>Personally, I don't think you can run a real student timesharing machine >>without the ability to use disk quotas. >> > >I agree. We are finding it is a serious problem. > >-- >Bob Ware, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Co 80401, USA >(303) 273-3987 >bware@mines.colorado.edu bware@slate.mines.colorado.edu bware@mines.bitnet I agree - disk quotas, are a real necessity when dealing with multiuser servers ! IBM - let's see it in 3.2... ! As for the suggestion to given each user his own filesystem, this sounds like a bad joke to me ! /Zvika Zvika Bar-Deroma Phone: (+972)-4-292706 Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Fax : (+972)-4-231848 Technion Haifa 32000 Israel BITNET : AER7101@TECHNION Internet : AER7101@TECHNION.TECHNION.AC.IL UUCP : ...!uunet!pucc.princeton.edu!technion!aer7101