Quotas by folder

sucellus · 06-18-2003, 01:57 PM

I am running Redhat 8 and samba.
I want to set up quotas for some directories but not others. For instance...

/sambaShares/public
no quota

/sambaShares/users/bob
1 Gig Quota

The problem is that bob would be able to save things to the public folder and his own user dir. If I set quotas by user then won't all the files in both his own share and public add to his quota limit? Is there a way to set quotas by directory instead?

Thanks for your help!

manthram · 06-18-2003, 02:06 PM

you can set group quota on the users group and make all the users who have access to the directory members of that group

sucellus · 06-18-2003, 02:39 PM

So I would have to make a group for each user and set the quotas on that group.

i.e. bob is a member of bobgroup
and bobgroup has a disk quota of 1 Gig
bob has access to public
and bobgroup has access to bob's user share

is that what you are say? sorry if I didnt understand, I'm new to this.

deepika · 07-29-2003, 10:26 AM

another solution could be repartition your hard disk and mount
/sambaShares/public and
/sambaShares/users on separate partitions and set the user quota of 1GB for bob only for second partition (mounted on /sambaShares/users)