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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: quotas and 4K/8K filesystems
Date: 25 Apr 1996 20:28:21 GMT
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jmrueda@diatel.upm.es (Javier Martin Rueda ) writes:

>1) I remember that in FreeBSD 2.0R quotas were reported to be somehow
>broken. Is it still true of 2.1R or later versions? (I think I haven't
>seen any warning about using quotas, so I guess they are ok, but I just
>want to confirm it.)

You have to put the quota control files into the appropriate file
systems, as opposed to store them for multiple file systems in a
single place.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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