On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote:

Hi,

is there any way to sum and limit quotas for one user across multiple filesystems?

E.g. I'd like to use different mountpoints on a mailserver for /var/mail and /home but the user should have only a total of 1GB.

There is no such functionality in quota. What you could do is to update the 2nd filesystems quota setting, on a regular basis, to something like TOTAL minus currently used on the 1st fs.

This surely qualifies as a "duct tape solution".

/Peter

or on a samba server the windows profile files should be on an other filesystem as other files for that user.

Regards,

Götz