Disk space limitation

[Jonathan Caplette]

Hi guys,

I wanna know if it's possible to set a limit of space on a home directory or other directory that a user can use. I explain my self:

For exemple I have 2 user, who their home dir are: /home/user1 ans /home/user2 can I say for user1 that he can put for 1gb of data in is home and for user2 he can put 500mb of data in si home... And can I limit the number of files in a directory???

If so, how can I see the limitation and how can I set that thing..

Thanks!!!
Jo

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

You can setup disk quotas. For more information, see:

# man 5 quota

Regards!

...JRF...

[Patrick Wallek]

It sounds like you want to set up a quota for these 2 users. YOu can limit the amount of space, but I don't know about limiting the number of files.

There are a number of quota commands. I recommend looking at the man pages for them all:

hercules: /exc/etc/scripts # man -k quota
edquota(1M) - edit user disk quotas
quota(1) - display disk usage and limits
quota(5) - disk quotas
quotacheck (generic)(1M) - file system quota consistency checker
quotacheck (hfs)(1M) - quota consistency checker for HFS file systems
quotacheck(1M) - VxFS file system quota consistency checker
quotactl(2) - manipulate disk quotas
quotaon, quotaoff(1M) - turn HFS file system quotas on and off
repquota(1M) - summarize file system quotas
rquotad(1M) - remote quota server

[Jonathan Caplette]

Ok thanks a lot guys..

I'm gonna check to put some quota...

ChoW!
Jo

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Jonathan,

you should have a look at the quota thing. This will limit the amount of disk space allocated to a particular user. You cannot limit the no of files in a directory,

Try this link below,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/B2355-90742_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/49-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/49-toc.html&searchterms=quota&queryid=20020110-084950

Look for "Setting Up and Turning On Disk Quotas "

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Thierry Poels_1]

hi,

I haven't used quotas for quite some time, but if I recall correctly quota will only take into account files OWNED by the user. If the user is "smart" or evil enough to chown some of his (large) files, he will not be stopped by quota. So to play safe chown should be disabled (setprivgrp).

regards,
Thierry.