How can I set a quota on a directory?

abefroman · 11-09-2009, 06:21 PM

How can I set a quota on a directory?

Is there an easy way to do this?

TIA

sysslack · 11-09-2009, 06:27 PM

Hi!
Maybe this could be of help!

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html

chrism01 · 11-09-2009, 06:56 PM

As you've got Centos, this applies http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_boo...sk-quotas.html

abefroman · 11-09-2009, 10:14 PM

Thanks but those look like they are just for users or groups and not for a specific directory.

chrism01 · 11-09-2009, 10:27 PM

I think you misunderstand quotas; they can only be set a for a filesystem, not individual dirs inside an fs. See my link above and any quota related ones here http://linux.die.net/man/

fpmurphy · 11-10-2009, 09:12 AM

One workaround is to mount a seperate filesystem on that directory and implement quotas on that filesystem.