quotas vs partitions

[Collins Richey]

On 11/24/05, R. Quenett <qcal at quen.net> wrote:
> Big foam cluebats, polite or otherwise, solicited and welcome.  :-)
> To start with, I admit that the research isn't done, or really even
> started, yet and what follows are just some preliminary thoughts.
>
> I have been in the habit of using various fairly complex partitioning
> schemes in order to put a hard upper limit on disk useage by such
> things as logfiles etc.  Lately, tho, I've begun to wonder why - and
> if there is a better way, such as disk quotas or some other way, to
> accomplish the same thing.
>

Don't know about quotas; never used them. If you like the flexibility
of partitioning schemes with easier maintenance, then LVM is for you.
On the older LVM1 it was brain dead simple and well supported by most
modern distros. LVM2 is a little behind the curve (at least on RHEL)
but getting there after a few updates. RH in their great wisdom
(typical for RH) switched to LVM2 on RHEL4 with no ability to shrink a
filesystem, but supposedly that is now fixed in U2. YMMV, I haven't
tried it yet.

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Collins Richey
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