UFS UFS Quotas help!

[freezr]

Hello friends,

I would like to apply quotas to my VPS but I got a couple of doubts... Tthe handbook makes you adding an entry to FSTAB:

/dev/da1s2g    /home    ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 1 2

What is not clear for me if the /home must be mount on its own partition; the VPS created by default one partition OS:

cat /etc/fstab 
# Device    Mountpoint    FStype    Options    Dump    Pass#
/dev/ufs/rootfs    /        ufs    rw    1    1

Is it required to have a separate /home partition or it doesn't matter and the quotas are applied to the folders rather than the partition?

Thanks in advance,
F.

 

[T-Daemon]

Is it required to have a separate /home partition or it doesn't matter and the quotas are applied to the folders rather than the partition?

Yes, it is required to have a separate /home partition, quotas can't be applied on directories.

 

[freezr]

Would work the same if I apply quotas to / or is it totally inconvenient?

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[T-Daemon]

You can apply quotas to any file system, this includes the FreeBSD root file system. Just add userquota (and/or groupquota) to the Options field of the / mount point in /etc/fstab.