[CentOS] folder quotas

[aurf alien]

Hmmm, perhaps user quotas?

I can easily script that into any user creation process.

So I can taylor home size on a per user basis as my power users would need
more space than my standard users.

Has any one done this?

- aurf

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03 AM, aurf alien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kwan,
>
> Thanks for fast the reply.
>
> Funny, I was reading that when I posted to the list.
>
> Not really a practical solution as my needs are for user home dirs which
> get automatically created when a user in created.
>
> The solution in the link would mean that I would have to script in some
> additional code that formats the users home dir as a file system, mounts it
> (if I have 300 users, will I have 300 mounts?) and then exports them (will I
> also have 300 exports?), and then 300 mount points on each workstation?
>
> I really really hope Centos/RHEL has some way similar to a Winblowz GPO
> were I can limit a users home folder in size.
>
> - aurf
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Kwan Lowe <kwan.lowe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, aurf alien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition
>> quotas?
>> >
>>
>> Check out this link:
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/directory-quota-601140/
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