Summary: Do you run Unix without disk quotas?

[Peter da Silva]

One point that you have missed bringing up in this summary is that a lot of
us consider automated disk quotas a negative value. If you have enough disk
space to hold the sum total of all the quotas, all you've done is create
the equivalent a bunch of partitions without any of the advantages of the
same. If you don't, then you haven't solved the problem of disk space abuse:
just narrowed the window. Like ulimits, it's an idea that sounds nice but
is really just an attempt to apply a technological quick fix to a social,
organizational, or procedural problem.
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