Xref: utzoo comp.unix.wizards:11320 comp.bugs.4bsd:1021 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!zodiac!zooks!jordan 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 Message-ID: <5550@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 19:13:12 GMT References: <294@mars.UUCP> <632@ecrcvax.UUCP> <884@sword.bellcore.com> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: jordan@ads.com (Jordan Hayes) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 16 Mark Levinewrites: 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