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Re: Limiting disk space

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Toby Herring)
Fri Oct 30 14:11:15 1998

Reply-To: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
From: "Toby Herring" <therring@syncroflo.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:08:41 -0500
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Go ahead and use quotas.  When you first enable quotas, all quotas are by
default set to unlimited.  You can then use the quota configuration tools to
set a quota on the single user that you want to restrict.
--
Toby Herring
IS Coordinator
SyncroFlo, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: Vineeta <vineeta@vidya.aptech.ac.in>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 4:52 AM
Subject: Limiting disk space


>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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