question regarding quotas

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sun Jun 29 22:25:48 PDT 2003


In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote:
> > So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file
> > N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to
> > your directory. You should be solved then.
> 
> Yes, I am familiar with this way of solving the problem, its just
> that I would like to try to avoid having all those partitions mounted
> (even if they are just vn-partitions) because then it is very hard to
> increase or decrease those quota sizes - you have to dump, dd a
> bigger file, re-vnconfig, then restore ... very time consuming.

If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :)

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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