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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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