Intrepid botches

[Karl Larsen]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
    Wish I knew...I re-d/l the Hardy Alternate to this computer and it 
worked just fine. I have Hardy on my cheap laptop and it looks GREAT! I 
am getting 170 updates now and it will be a keeper.

Karl


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