[96929] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Limiting disk space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Fri Oct 30 08:29:57 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 07:26:56 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Vineeta wrote:
> I want to limit disk space for a single user to say,10 Mb on my server
>since he frequently needs to upload & download data.
>I had posted this question earlier and got answers all relating to
>quotas.I don't want to make a quota filesystem.Isn't there any other way
>to restrict space he can use?Maybe a script will help.
>
Unless you set up quotas it'll be hard to prevent him from going over that
limit. A cheap and tacky alternative would be to run a script against his
home directory every <n> minutes (from cron perhaps) that checks the disk
usage and if needs be starts randomly deleting files.
Not that I'd suggest that - much better to tell a user they don't have
space to save a file than to unexpectedly remove files when he's not
informed he's over quota.
why don't you want to set up the quota support?
-dave
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