the quota system?

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wonslung

i was currious, if i use the quota system in freebsd can i set it on home directories PER user or is it a global setting for all users?

I know i could use ZFS for quotas but i can't use ZFS on this machine.

what i'd like is to set some homes at 10 gb some 25 and some 35
 
yes, to enable quota put quota option in kernel and build it.
enable quota on /home and edit as desired user/group.quota file.
keep in mind that size is specified in bytes and no substitution like K M G are possible. there is possability to restrict users on inode use. for more info man -k quota and the handbook.
 
yah, but i can set it PER user

so i can set one user 25g and one 10g?
i read it in the handbook but it wasn't perfectly clear
thanks
 
No. ZFS quotas are per filesystem. If you want to do "per user" quotas on their home directory, then you need to create a separate ZFS filesystem for each user. Which works fine, for single-purpose/single-user filesystems.

Once you start getting into shared filesystems, then the user-per-filesystem method breaks down a bit. For example, you can't have a /home/shared directory, and give user's 10 GB quotas on /home/shared.

This is a known, current "limitation" in ZFS. I believe they are working on it for a later version, but haven't really been keeping up with quota development.
 
phoenix said:
No. ZFS quotas are per filesystem. If you want to do "per user" quotas on their home directory, then you need to create a separate ZFS filesystem for each user. Which works fine, for single-purpose/single-user filesystems.

Once you start getting into shared filesystems, then the user-per-filesystem method breaks down a bit. For example, you can't have a /home/shared directory, and give user's 10 GB quotas on /home/shared.

This is a known, current "limitation" in ZFS. I believe they are working on it for a later version, but haven't really been keeping up with quota development.
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no, this is for a different system, i have a ufs only system that i will not be running ZFS on, this is for a seedbox server. When we tried ZFS on it it was a disaster...it was just lagged out, not sure why exactly but it worked fine under UFS before.

I did, however, become addicted to using quotas so i needed to understand how to handle them in ufs.
 
wonslung said:
yah, but i can set it PER user

so i can set one user 25g and one 10g?
i read it in the handbook but it wasn't perfectly clear
thanks
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then read the handbook again, read the manpages - take a look at edquota - editing quotas. edquota seeduser will open the quota file for user seeduser in your $EDITOR (by default vi)
 
mk said:
then read the handbook again, read the manpages - take a look at edquota - editing quotas. edquota seeduser will open the quota file for user seeduser in your $EDITOR (by default vi)
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yah, i read it again after your post, i had seen where it said to put the stuff in fstab and what not but i didn't originally see how you were supposed to edit it.

i think i get it now. thanks

edit:

i'm currious, is this possible inside a jail? if so how would you go about setting it up?
 
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