Hello everyone, I would like to know if there is an easy way to give every member of a certain group a specified amount of diskspace using quotas.

If I set a group to have 10 mb, does that mean that (1) that group can have 10 mb in total or (2) does it mean that each member gets 10 mb?

If it works, as i presume it does, as option #1, is there any other way to give every groupmember a specified amount of diskspace?

--0p3r4

i think setting a group to 10MB means only the group as a whole gets 10MB, not each member of the group. otherwise it wouldn't make sense to even have a group quota, for example if you added more users the project or group would just keep getting bigger.

i also don't believe you can set quotas for groupmembers *within* an individual group (meaning as opposed to just giving them a quota in general), if that's what you mean by the second part, but i could be wrong. it would be interesting to see how that's done if it is possible, though.

well thats pretty much what i thought... one idea i have summoned up since posting this earlier today was that you might also be able to perform this by dedicating a high starting ID-number of the affected users, lets say like 700, this way you would be able to use one single syntax to give every user from 700 and up the same quotas.

(Got the idea from reading this at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Quota)

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4.3. Assigning quota for a bunch of users with the same value


To rapidly set quotas for, say 100 users, on my system to the same
value as my user bob, I would first edit bob's quota information by
hand, then execute:

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edquota -p bob `awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}' /etc/passwd`
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assuming that you are using csh, and that you assign your user UID's
starting with 500.
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Anyway, unless someone has a better idea i guess this is how i will do this.