Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-09 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2011/1/8 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? Group quotas are more flexible. They provid

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 __

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 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 > quotas? > > > > I'

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 and the real user will get the same

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 partitio

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 wrote: > Hi Kwan, > > Th

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 Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, aurf alien 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/ ___ CentOS