quotas arent that bad really - check this doc out and you'll have it going in no time..
http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/tools/edquota.html jamie *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/2/2002 at 12:33 AM Anonymous wrote: >>I've just started using rsync, and it's way cool. >> >>I checked the FAQ, the broken mailing list archive search function, and >>scanned the archives, but didn't see this mentioned. I presume it's a >>fairly common need: >> >>I'm mirroring files automatically and daily from one site to another, >>and anticipate the day when the size of the files may exceed the size of >>the destination disk. Rather than take up the whole disk (which is a >>root partition) and bring my destination system down, I'd prefer that >>the rsync process fail gracefully and not copy files when there's only a >>small amount of space left on the destination disk. >> >>I realize I could accomplish this by creating a partition on the >>destination disk, but I don't like partitions because changing them >>means taking down a production server and reformatting the drive. I >>took a look at quotas, which seem to fit the bill more closely, but >>either the documentation out there on them is weak or I'm just not smart >>enough to figure out whether they'll give me the assurance I'm looking >>for. >> >>How have other rsync users solved this problem?
