Intrepid botches

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:

>     Well somewhere I read about ways to limit a user's space on a 
> computer years ago maybe it was Windows?

Um...it's called a user quota. Windows has it now. Unix has had it 
for...what,...forty years?

There are definitely ways to limit user disk usage.

Then again...users can do it by doing something like sticking their home 
directory on a physical 20 gig drive and the system on a 120 gig drive 
and wonder why their home is limited to 20 gig...that's kind of an easy 
way to enforce a quota.

>     Here is my lap-top Intrepid:
> 
> karl at lap-top-linux:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3              15G  3.2G   11G  24% /
> tmpfs                 979M     0  979M   0% /lib/init/rw
> varrun                979M  104K  979M   1% /var/run
> varlock               979M     0  979M   0% /var/lock
> udev                  979M  2.8M  976M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 979M  308K  978M   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                   979M  2.0M  977M   1% 
> /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
> karl at lap-top-linux:~$ df -h /home/karl/Desktop
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda3              15G  3.2G   11G  24% /

It looks like you have a 15 gig partition. Where were you getting the 
700 meg home directory limit?