05-08-2007
Set quota on directories
Hi all,
Is it possible to set a quota on subfolders? I understand it can be set on file system level, how bout on individual folders?
Thanks.
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setquota
SETQUOTA(8) System Manager's Manual SETQUOTA(8)
NAME
setquota - set disk quotas
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesys-
tem...
/usr/sbin/setquota [ -r ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem...
/usr/sbin/setquota -t [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem...
DESCRIPTION
setquota is a command line quota editor. The filesystem, user/group name and new quotas for this filesystem can be specified on the com-
mand line.
-r Edit also remote quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set quota.
-F quotaformat
Perform setting for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection). Possible format names are: vfsold (version 1 quota),
vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)
-u Set user quotas for named user. This is the default.
-g Set group quotas for named group.
-p protoname
Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the named user or group.
-t Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds.
-a Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform setting.
To disable a quota, set the coresponding parameter to 0. To change quotas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem.
Only the super-user may edit quotas.
FILES
aquota.user or aquota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
quota.user or quota.group
quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
/etc/mtab mounted filesystem table
SEE ALSO
edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8)
SETQUOTA(8)