02-05-2010
Thanks fpmurphy, I will check your idea. Looks like it will work.
royalliege, you suggestion will set quota on a user. not on a subdirectory.
Thanks guys for your replies.
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rquotad(1M) rquotad(1M)
NAME
rquotad - remote quota server
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
is an RPC server that returns quotas for a user of a local file system currently mounted by a remote machine by means of NFS (see rpc(3N)).
The results are used by to display user quotas for remote file systems (see quota(1)).
might not work for local filesystems which support a 64-bit quota file format. The Q_QUOTAINFO command of the system call can be used to
determine the quota file format supported by a particular filesystem. (See quotactl(2)).
is normally invoked by (see inetd(1M)).
AUTHOR
Disk Quotas were developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP.
FILES
Quota statistics static storage for a file system, where
directory is the root of the file system.
SEE ALSO
inetd(1M), quotactl(2), rpc(3N), services(4), quota(5), nfs(7).
rquotad(1M)