Do you run Unix without disk quotas?

[John M. Blasik]

In article <SCHALES.91Feb21111108 at photon.tamu.edu> schales at photon.tamu.edu (Douglas Lee Schales) writes:
>In article <28961 at cs.yale.edu> anselmo-ed at CS.YALE.EDU (Ed Anselmo) writes:
>   >>>>> On 15 Feb 91 17:00:46 GMT, timcc at csv.viccol.edu.au said:
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>   We don't run quota's on any of our machines here.

Same here at a .com site.
    [ more of the same stuff we do delete...]

>
>I'll agree to most of that, as I ran a site in exactly this manner.  It *is*
>quite amazing how quickly users can clear 15-20MB's when they need it.  The

Not as amazing as how our users can clear 150-200MB!

>problem with this is that *1* user can create havoc for all of the other
>users on this partition.  It is hardly fair that these users aren't able to
>work because one person has filled up the partition.  Even though everyone
>may know who is causing the problem, this won't help them with their project
>which is due the next day.

Sounds like you need some BIGGER, NASTIER, MEANER users with stuff due.
'Round here we have the biggest, nastiest, meanest hoss
(goes by the name "BIG MAC") as ~enforcer.
	% groups mac
	mac : users W

needless to say, most partitions contain directories writeable by group-W :-)

-- john