>>> joelr at ellegon.com 01/15/02 12:32PM >>> >On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 12:05, John J. Trammell wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 10:12:00AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: >> > Either way, you are correct from a pragmatic point of view (I'd >> > say), but from an idealistic point of view, one could argue that >> > *every* user (even daemons and root) should have quotas, disk space >> > being finite. >> Good, because I'm a pragmatist. :-) >> The thought of sitting down to work out new disk quotas every time I >> add a user gives me the willies. It is far less work for me in my >> current position to just partition. >I'm fairly sure that that process can and should be >automated, if you're going to be doing it at all often. Even if you spend the time automating the process, if it provides no benefit _that_you_appreciate_ over the partitioning method, and you're going to have multiple partitions anyway (i.e. multiple disks), the partitioning method is easier.