Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!jpayne
From: jpayne@cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: quotas
Message-ID: <9048@sol.ARPA>
Date: 26 Apr 88 23:34:35 GMT
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept., Rochester, NY
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Hi.  I know next to nothing about quotas except that I hate them and am
glad I never have to deal with them.  Unfortunately, some people do have
to live with them.  My question is, is there a way to tell whether or not
a user is over quota BEFORE creating and writing a file?  What I want to
avoid is creating a file with the intent of rewriting it (say from an
editor) only to find that the user is over quota.

Thanks.