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From: jordan@zooks.ads.com (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: patch to du to restrict to one file-system
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Date: 24 Sep 88 19:13:12 GMT
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Mark Levine  writes:

	If this is a recurring problem with your system (how to find
	out who is using the disk space), you may find it worthwhile to
	just use the quota mechanism.  Even if you don't want to
	enforce small quotas, you can give all users unbounded use of
	the disk and still get a report of who is using how much across
	logins.

Gee whiz, doesn't anybody read manuals anymore?

What about quot(8)??? -- you don't need those slow quota hacks in yer
kernel just to find out who owns the files, and you don't need feeping
creaturism on du ...

/jordan