Space limit on Directory

[Griselda Sanchez]

Hi.
Is possible to configure space limit on directories (not a file systems)?
Thanks

[Rodney Hills]

As far as I am aware. You can turn on quota on a file system.

-- Rod Hills

[G. Vrijhoeven · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes and No...
quotas must be turned on a filesystem level ( /etc/fstab), but when turned on you can edit qoutas on user home dirs ( edqouta command)
If you do not want it on a home dir but just a regular dir i can only think of a seperate lvol.

HTH,

Gideon

[Griselda Sanchez]

And exits any quotas for users (a specific user cannot put any file bigger than X size) ?
thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi,

Quota can be used upon filesystem per user basis. Look at 'man 5 quota' for more information. A snippet of it is

//Disk quotas can be used by the system administrator to limit the
number of files and file blocks owned by a user on a per-file-system
basis. Separate limits can be established for both the number of
files (inodes) and the number of 1-Kbyte blocks for each user. A soft
(preferred) and a hard limit are established.//

Keeping the above in mind, you cannot limit a user based on a single file size. If the file size exceeds the 'remaining quota' then the user cannot keep that file.

-Sri