Re: limiting hard drive space for a user..
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:19:48 +1000
"Ross Tsolakidis" <rtsolakidis@powerserve.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Newbie question I know,
> But how can I limit a users home dir to certain amount of hard drive
> space ? Is it possible ?
It is if you're using the ext2 filesystem for /home. I don't know about
other filesystems.
See man quota and man quotatool (of course you need to install the
packages.)
You'll also need a kernel with quota support; this is provided in the
default 2.4.18 kernel.
Kevin
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