2011/1/8 aurf alien <aurfalien at gmail.com>: > 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? Group quotas are more flexible. They provide consumption control both per home directory and per-project directory. According to Redhat's convention - an user is created together with an unique primary group whose name equals the user's name. Home folder's space consumtion is regulated using per-group quota on user's primary group. Usually, users participate in different projects having corresponding file-sharing folders in the file system. For each project one creates a separate group. All users participating in the project are assigned members of this group. Consumption per project folder is regulated with per-group quota on the project's group. One should not, of course, forget to set appropriate group permitions on the folders and to activate the set-group-id bit. I read all this 12 years ago in the RedHat's users guide. Kind regards, Alexander