disk quotas

[Chuck Hedrick]

How you do something matters as much as what you do.  If you are into
Control, I have little sympathy.  It is crazy to think that quotas are
going to let you decrease a user's disk usage below what he seriously
believes he needs.  But in a cooperative environment, they provide a
convenient benchmark, that documents what the user has agreed to.  The
4.2 quota system is particularly nice, since it forgives a few
overages, and allows for more working space when logged in.  They
cause people to look at their file usage a bit more than they would
otherwise, and to think for 30 seconds whether they really want to ask
me for more space.  That's useful, and about all one should expect.