patch to du to restrict to one file-system

Jordan Hayes jordan at zooks.ads.com
Sun Sep 25 05:13:12 AEST 1988


Mark Levine <yba at sabre.BellCore.COM> writes:

	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



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