does anyone know of a command or way to limit a user's amount of storage, i have a few users on slackware box, and less than 12gb to share in the /home partition. I need a way without repartitioning my hd and one thats not super complicated. Anyone any ideas? Also if there's a way of just limiting a folder to a certain size that would be just as good? thanks..

Try using the "quota" program, that is if you have installed it as one of the slackware packages.

There should be enough material on the net to explain how to use it. I am sorry, but I am not profecient in using it, otherwise I would have given a more detailed answer.

i am using ext3 for all partitions, can i still use quota with ext3? thanks for the advce though

ok scrap that last reply, it does work with ext3, but is there another way without having to recompile my kernel, i've never done it with slackware and don't want to break it already

Are you sure it's not enabled already? My Slack 10.1 install gave me all the quota tools, so I imagine quota support was built into the kernel.

Anyhow, you need to have the kernel level stuff configured to use quotas. Recompiling a kernel isn't hard (read the guides around here). Just leave a copy of your original kernel lying around so you vcan boot it if there's a problem with the new one. Otherwise, I suppose you could write a shell script to be run from cron that monitors users' disk usage and locks any accounts that use too much space (or prints nasty messages when they login or whatever).

Ya just install the slackware package