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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!bcarh8ab.bnr.ca!bcrkh13.bnr.ca!news From: Colin Sumby <csum@bnr.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Limiting Directory Sizes? Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 14:29:43 +0100 Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 41 Message-ID: <31A46847.4241@bnr.co.uk> References: <info-1905961139480001@news.total.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bnsgs225.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:14258 comp.unix.admin:42365 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1097 comp.unix.questions:82110 Webmaster wrote: > > Is there a way in UNIX to set a limit on a subdirectory so that no more > than x amount of megs may be saved into it? > > For example, if I rent out 2 megs of space to a client, is there a command > in UNIX where I could make sure that no more than 2 megs can be saved in > his directory? > > I would really appreciate a suggestion on how to set the limit. I am > running on BSDi on Apache. > > Please reply via e-mail, I really need to find this out and don't want to > miss your posting. > > Thank you very much in advance. > > Nathalie > nat@dezines.com > > -- > _____________________________________ > DeZines > Web Hosting (Virtual and non-Virtual) > http://www.dezines.com > info@dezines.com > _____________________________________ I'm not sure about your flavour of UNIX but it mat be possible to set up hard (strictly enforced) or soft (admin is warned) quotas. Try man -k quota. -- #################################################################### # ~~ Just a regular chap # Colin Sumby # @@ ? who's hobbies include; # NorTel Limited, # C breathing and gentle # Oakley Road, New Southgate, # , cardio-vascular activity.# London, England. # # 0181 945 2822 ######### The passage of my life is measured out in shirts ######### ~