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jonfa 11-28-2001 09:20 AM
NFS disk space limitation
 
Hi All,

How do I set a NFS disk space limitation? For example, I only want the user Jon to be able to write no more than 100 megabytes of data.

Thanks,

Jon

mcleodnine 11-28-2001 01:46 PM
stolen from http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Quota-1.html...

Quote:
1. What is Quota?

Quota allows you to specify limits on two aspects of disk storage: the number of inodes a user or a group of users may possess; and the number of disk blocks that may be allocated to a user or a group of users.

The idea behind quota is that users are forced to stay under their disk comsumption limit, taking away their ability to comsume unlimited disk space on a system. Quota is handled on a per user, per file system basis. If there is more than one file system which a user is expected to create files, then quota must be set for each file system seperately.
See the nicely done mini-HOW-TO or try 'man quota'.


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