Module Name: src
Committed By: dholland
Date: Tue Aug 14 05:14:53 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas: quotas.ms
Log Message:
Some edits, prompted by suggestions from Edgar Fuss.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas/quotas.ms
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diff -u src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas/quotas.ms:1.6 src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas/quotas.ms:1.7
--- src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas/quotas.ms:1.6 Mon May 21 06:30:18 2012
+++ src/share/doc/smm/04.quotas/quotas.ms Tue Aug 14 05:14:53 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: quotas.ms,v 1.6 2012/05/21 06:30:18 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: quotas.ms,v 1.7 2012/08/14 05:14:53 dholland Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ exceed their allotted limit, but allow s
extra space for current work.
Remaining over quota for long periods of time
will eventually cause a fatal over-quota condition.
+.PP
+File system independent access to quotas is provided via a library,
+\fIlibquota\fP\|(3),
+shared by the quota tools and available to third-party software.
+Dump and restore tools are provided for backing up quota information.
.AE
.NH 1
Users' view of disk quotas
@@ -229,7 +234,8 @@ files.
These appear by default in the root directory of the volume they apply
to, but may be placed anywhere, including sometimes on another file
system.
-While file-system-level support is required, much of the work involved
+While file-system-level support is required, and enforcement is done in
+the file system, much of the work involved
in maintaining the quota system is external to the file system.
The program
\fIquotacheck\fP\|(8)
@@ -319,7 +325,7 @@ options to
\fInewfs\fP\|(8)
as desired.
This will create and initialize the on-disk data structures for
-quotas.
+user and/or group quotas respectively.
These can also be created using
\fItunefs\fP\|(8).
.PP
