Am Di, den 20.01.2004 schrieb Rick Stevens um 00:57: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mo, den 19.01.2004 schrieb Simon Bell um 23:48: > > > >>My machine has 2 hard drives. Ive set up user quotas on both of them, but it > >>seems that i have to give each drive a separate quota amount. Is there any > >>way to make it a general system quota which would encompass both drives so I > >>could say give each user 200MB of quota across both drives? > > > > > > No, you set quotas per partition where quotas are enabled. > > Actually they're per-filesystem. In a classic UNIX environment, users > were not allowed to create files anywhere except their home directories > or in /tmp, so you only had to set up two quotas (and the /tmp one was > usually quite small). You are right in correcting me. Quota on a blank partition without filesystem would not make any sense. > In this case, however, a sequential LVM of the two filesystems in > question should work. Yes, LVM would be a solution. But you have to configure that at install time, don't you? Moving an existing installation from non LVM to LVM based is a little bit complex. Do you agree? I am running quota on /home and /var/spool/mail, both separate partitions, of course with filesystem (ext3) on it. Mounting both directories to the same LVM volume using mount bind? Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
