[Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.

[Jarrett m Carver]

Perhaps it would be easier to create seperate partitions for each department?
Just a thought.

John Kennedy wrote:

> Leon,
> We do need the quota.  We just don't need it for users.  We need it for
> departments.
> John
>
> Leon Halford - Open Systems Solutions Ltd wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:06:17 -0500
> > > From: John Kennedy <jkennedy at orent.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Disk quota by group.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the suggestion.  The problem we are having is that we do not
> > > want a user quota at all.  We are a Graphic Arts company.  As a result
> > > there are several large graphic files that will be worked on by several
> > > people.  If one user is working on a large page of graphics we can't
> > > have a quota for this user stopping them from working.  The only way we
> > > can do this right now is to have each department log on with only 1 user
> > > ID (up to 40 people using the same Logon ID is not quite my idea of
> > > secure) and set the user quota that way.
> > > I want to give everyone their own ID for obvious security reasons but
> > > can't figure out the quota's.
> >
> > If you don't want quota's then disable them...  quotaoff -a
> >
> > Also, remove the "quota" mount at boot option from every filesystem in
> > /etc/vfstab.
> >
> > ..Incidently quotas aren't enabled by default.
> >
> > Leon.
> >
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Jarrett Carver                            DIA OSIS System Administrator
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