and now: quota

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:50:53 PDT 2004


Quoth Keith Morse:
> 
> "man repquota" is not explaining all the columns. An example.
> 
> [root at mpcu-mon root]# repquota /
> *** Report for user quotas on device /dev/sda2
> Block grace time: 24:00; Inode grace time: 00:00
>                         Block limits                File limits
> User            used    soft    hard  grace    used  soft  hard  grace
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> root      -- 1750012       0       0         107558     0     0       
> bin       --   11960       0       0           1417     0     0       
> daemon    --       8       0       0              3     0     0       
> vcsa      --      12       0       0            129     0     0       
> lp        --     188       0       0              8     0     0       
> rpm       --   27176       0       0             95     0     0       
> ntp       --       8       0       0              2     0     0       
> kgmorse   +-  463740  153600  204800           1476     0     0       

[snippage]

> What is the second column telling me?  first plus is over user limit? the 
> second (-) is the group?

Consider the second column shorthand for columns 3-10.  + in the first 
column says kgmorse has exceed block limits  -- you naughty boy. + in the 
second column, if present, indicates being over limit on file limits. 

Kurt
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