How do You find User's Disk Usage?

[trakwebster]

Hi, Cody Frisch,

Thank you for all your kindness and assistance. I am grateful and promise to pass along the help to somebody else soon.

Although some of your recommendations I 'm timid to use now, I will try them on the next server.

-- Arthur Cronos

How's the weather there in Helena? My wife and I have been searching to relocate. We've got it down to Whitefish MT, Nelson BC, and Lake Shastina CA. We haven't visited Helena.

[CodyFrisch]

Helena doesn't get near the snow of Whitefish. Typically less rain too, though this year is shaping up to be nice.

Its definately a lot more urban than Whitefish - if you can call Helena urban. There are more people up in that county than down here, but its more spread out.

Its closer to a desert here than you'd think. We're east of the divide so most the water gets trapped on the other side. But its not like Arizona.

Temps get into the 100's sometimes, very rare. Normal peaks are in the 80's. Normal winter temps are in the 20's and up with occassional drops below that, with a few days every year below zero. Normal snowfall is a few inches at a time, though this year we got a couple feet in a few hours. Thats once ever 30 years though.

As far as the essentials, we have pretty widely availible DSL within the city limits. We have cable internet availible pretty widely both in and out of the city limits, though right now the cable is stinking it up because Comcast bought ATT - then sold it to Bresnan Communications (small company, but looking good.) But anyway Comcast and ATT shut off all the excess bandwidth they could before they sold it, so now it creeps. Bresnan promised to have it fixed in the next month, as they rebuild it all - new routers, new lines, etc. Hopefully they come through!

The county has about 55,000 city limits has just under 30,000. We have a walmart, shopko, target, kmart (for a while at least), and are getting a home depot. So we are not a small town. Whitefish is smaller but not really less modern or anything. Whitefish is definately more of a tourist town than Helena.

Hope that helps you out a little.

[trakwebster]

Cody Frisch, you are the *man*!

[CodyFrisch]

Originally posted by trakwebster
Cody Frisch, you are the *man*!

I would be if it weren't for the fact I'm a woman (joking)

You can don't have to call me Johnson.... just Cody

[danimal]

This thread is very helpful, but I still have a few questions for anyone out there. I've been having the usual quota problems and realized it's because of having incremental backups. I suppose I could turn them off and just do full backups, but I'd rather solve the problem at the source, rather than a workaround.

My system came with just two partitions: /boot and /
Unfortunately, this means that everything under / is "usrquota"'d. So, my questions are:

1) Is there a way to specify a "virtual" mountpoint in fstab that doesn't map to a physical partition? That way, I can specify /backup even though it isn't on it's own partition?

2) If not, is there a safe way to repartition this drive without screwing things up? I'd rather not mess with it

3) Barring repartitioning, are there any other options to turn quotas off for /backup/ ?

I guess if I can't get some other solution, I'll just turn off the incremental backups. Kinda a bummer, though. Seems like either (a) cpanel should have the ability to assign backups to a different user/group so as to not count towards quota, or (b) the quota system should have the ability to turn off directories, not just mount points.

Anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Danimal

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[asmithjr]

I put a script here that I am using:

Disk Usage Mail Script