disk quotas

Sean Casey sean at ukma.UUCP
Thu Aug 8 09:46:13 AEST 1985


Disk quotas are good for stopping that overnight batch job that goes haywire
and loops while writing to a file.  The SA comes in in the morning and finds
30 feet of console output complaining about a full disk.  

For example:

	shar -bcv * > sharfile

Something this innocent looking can do it.


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