On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Eve Atley wrote: > Is there a way to set a quota limit on user's home folders? EG. say I have > /home/joe, /home/jane, and want to set it so they can have no more than 5GB > in their folders? > > Thanks, > Eve
What you have todo is: 1. Create seperate partitions for the /home/joe /home/jane directory entrys. 2. install the quota program for your native GNU/Linux distribution you are using. Which is ??? [Next time tell your system specs when asking a question] 3. Update /etc/fstab and remount the system. Note, the kernel has to support the use of quota's in most cases. Here are some links: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialQuotas.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/ch-disk-quotas.html http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/debian/quotas.html B.t.w. The `Folders' terminology is used in a M$ Wintendo enviroment but in the *X world they are refered to as directorys or special files. cheers J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs