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With quotas to work it needs to be a defined partition so if you already have /home as a partition of its own then setting quotas will be quick and easy. If /home is on the / partition then it will not work. My idea in the above post should work okay.
thanks for the reply. I found another post about this on a osx server discussion board. One user recommended writing a simple shell script to check the folder's size and e-mail me a notification if it exceeds the limit. That may be the easiest way to do it.
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From your post I did a quick search and found this one that list a script that I think is what you are after. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/arc...p/t-46726.html
I did not look over the script but my thinking is a script that runs from cron every hour maybe that looks in /home and sorts it size. Then it can send you an email of the output or maybe the tail of the output. Or go farther and check the output for vaules higher than you want and just email that to you when it is over the limit. Less email this way. The script in the link might be what I am talking about.
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