Out of curiousity, how do you upgrade ext2 to ext3? I've tried doing:

tune2fs -O ^has_journal /dev/hda1
and then running e2fsck /dev/hda1

But, AFIAK it is still ext2. On boot up it still complains about not having a journal.

Thanks,
Jeff

--On Tuesday, November 12, 2002 4:46 PM -0700 "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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On Tuesday 12 November 2002 04:30, Roy Souther wrote:
Try using  /etc/security/limits.conf to restrict the amout of RAM, CPU
usage they can have.
Make sure they can not install binarys into places like /usr/bin or
/usr/local make them run their binaries for $HOME/bin and set up disk
quotas so they don't use to much space.
this is exactly what i thought when reading the parent.

only a couple things to add:

stop using ext2 on a server with that much disk that may be brought to
its  knees because of development happening on it. use a journaled
filesystem like  ext3 (which you can upgrade ext2 from w/out
reformatting) and your fschecks  will take up a lot less of your time ;-)

as for large files, as long as you are using a 2.4 kernel you will big
file  support, allowing files up to 16terabytes even on 32 bit platforms.
more info  can be had at: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

take care and best of luck w/your crashy server.

of course, you could always just take to whipping the developers whenever
the  system goes down. i understand developers respond well to frequent
and savage  beatings. ;-)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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