We have a shared drive mounted from SAN on multiple linux systems. Users are aloud to create folders and share them but it gets tedious monitoring the users folder size. I was wondering if anyone knows of a monitoring tool that can monitor NFS mounted folders for their sizes and list them. Could be something very simple but it has to be fast. the shared drive is a terabyte in size.

I guess maybe quotas can be enabled limiting users usage.

Brian

Brian, thanks for the reply. I'm new to this, can you tell me how to set quotas for disk space in linux?

Those links should help to explain. The main idea is in your /etc/fstab for the partition that is mounted has a defined limit you setup for all users. Then each user has a directory of their own. This is where thay add their files. Now if the limit is near the soft limit an email to the user can sent as well as the administrator of the system. And if there limit reaches the hard point then they need to remove files or ask to expand the quota limits for themselve only. You can any limit for any user. Its been a long time since using quotas but that was for an email server and homepage space to limit users so as not to do a regular scan of users usage.

Brian

Brian1/Lurko,
Thank you very much for your help.

google did all the work, but you're welcome . Sorry for not being more specific in my link-only post, I felt the hits of the search did a better job explaining than I could, not having implemented quotas myself.