[96964] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Limiting disk space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Levitsky)
Fri Oct 30 11:07:21 1998
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 11:00:32 -0500
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From: Joshua Levitsky <jlevitsk@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810301010.PAA00742@vidya.aptech.ac.in>
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You could make a partition that is 10mb and mount it on your linux box.
Then make the user's home directory that mount and have the understanding
that he will only save within his home directory.
Sound good?
-Josh
At 05:10 AM 10/30/98 , you wrote:
>Hi all,
> 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.
>
>Any ideas????
>
>A quick reply would be appreciated.
>
>Thanx a ton.
>Vineeta.
>
>
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