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Old 04-26-2004, 09:13 AM   #1
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limit user HD space


I was talking with my friend and he uses SME server, and when he creates a user, he can tell the script to limit the ammount of space the user can use in his /home directory.

Im running gentoo. How can I go about limiting how much HD space a user can use?
 
Old 04-26-2004, 09:15 AM   #2
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i think you must use quota
 
Old 04-26-2004, 10:10 AM   #3
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i think you must use quota
Yes, you are looking for quotas.

Check out the howto at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...gle/Quota.html
 
Old 04-26-2004, 05:36 PM   #4
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Cool, I'll read up on it.

Thanks guys.
 
  


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