Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-09 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2011/1/8 aurf alien aurfal...@gmail.com: Hmmm, perhaps user quotas? I can easily script that into any user creation process. So I can taylor home size on a per user basis as my power users would need more space than my standard users. Has any one done this? Group quotas are more flexible.

[CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread aurf alien
Hi all, Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition quotas? I'm trying to limit home dirs from getting out of control. And I did RTFM but it seems only partition/share quotas are possible :) - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, aurf alien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition quotas? Check out this link: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/directory-quota-601140/

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread aurf alien
Hi Kwan, Thanks for fast the reply. Funny, I was reading that when I posted to the list. Not really a practical solution as my needs are for user home dirs which get automatically created when a user in created. The solution in the link would mean that I would have to script in some additional

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread aurf alien
Hmmm, perhaps user quotas? I can easily script that into any user creation process. So I can taylor home size on a per user basis as my power users would need more space than my standard users. Has any one done this? - aurf On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03 AM, aurf alien aurfal...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/11 12:50 PM, aurf alien wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition quotas? I'm trying to limit home dirs from getting out of control. And I did RTFM but it seems only partition/share quotas are possible :) Where else on the same partition is a

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread Barry Brimer
Hmmm, perhaps user quotas? So I can taylor home size on a per user basis as my power users would need more space than my standard users. You can create template / prototype users one for each one you want a specific quota for and then use edquota -p prototype user real user and the real

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread aurf alien
Nowhere else since there home dir on the file system is the only place they can write. - aurf On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/8/11 12:50 PM, aurf alien wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/11 3:00 PM, aurf alien wrote: Nowhere else since there home dir on the file system is the only place they can write. Then per-user quotas should do what you want without anything extra per-folder. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com