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Old 01-27-2006, 02:31 PM   #1
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setting maximum folder size


Is there a way to set the maximum size of a file folder in linux? Could I say that /home/user/mydocs can only hold 1GB of data? Let me know. Thanks!
 
Old 01-27-2006, 02:51 PM   #2
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The only way I know how to do it is use quotas. Google for info on disk quotas at http://www.google.com/linux . I posted this a few days ago but never tried it myself. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...87#post2063987

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.

See if that works out.
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Old 01-27-2006, 03:00 PM   #3
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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.
 
Old 01-27-2006, 04:59 PM   #4
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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.

Somethings are the simpliest.
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Old 01-27-2006, 05:46 PM   #5
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If you not really needed to know right now when it happens from a script send the tail end of the du command to your local mail. Something like this.

du -k -h --max-depth=1 /home | sort -n | tail -20 | mail -s " /home heavy users " username_local_mail
du -k -h --max-depth=1 /home | sort -rn | tail -20 | mail -s " /home heavy users " username_mail_account

Can be added to a cron to run whenever you want.

Just something I thought about learning.
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Old 03-26-2010, 11:36 AM   #6
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Hi,

can you tell me how can you solve this problem?
I think I have same issue, but I donot know how I can I solve it.

Thanks,
 
  


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