Take a look at HDFS Quotas Guide . http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.20.0/hdfs_quota_admin_guide.html
Thanks, - Ravi On 6/15/09 11:16 PM, "Palleti, Pallavi" <pallavi.pall...@corp.aol.com> wrote: Hi all, We have chown command in hadoop dfs to make a particular directory own by a person. Do we have something similar to create user with some space limit/restrict the disk usage by a particular user? Thanks Pallavi Ravi --