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Operating Systems Linux Apply disk quota to account(dedicate 3 GB to account). Post 302326126 by ashokd009 on Wednesday 17th of June 2009 06:48:52 AM
Old 06-17-2009
Apply disk quota to account(dedicate 3 GB to account).

Hi ,

I am faceing lot of problem due to "disk space is not enough".

senerio is like as,

In system has 5 account.
a,b,c,d,e

say account c if very critical.

Due to other user's data, user 'c' is faceing disk space issue.

I want to dedicate 3 GB for user 'c'.

No user account can use that space.

Any suggestion highly appriciated.

Rgds,
ashokd009
 

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USERDEL(8)						      System Manager's Manual							USERDEL(8)

NAME
userdel - Delete a user account and related files SYNOPSIS
userdel [-r] login DESCRIPTION
The userdel command modifies the system account files, deleting all entries that refer to login. The named user must exist. The options which apply to the userdel command are: -r Files in the user's home directory will be removed along with the home directory itself and the user's mail spool. Files located in other file systems will have to be searched for and deleted manually. FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information /etc/shadow - secure user account information /etc/group - group information CAVEATS
userdel will not allow you to remove an account if the user is currently logged in. You must kill any running processes which belong to an account that you are deleting. You may not remove any NIS attributes on an NIS client. This must be performed on the NIS server. SEE ALSO
chfn(1), chsh(1), passwd(1), groupadd(8), groupdel(8), groupmod(8), useradd(8), usermod(8) AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com) USERDEL(8)
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