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allocating disk space for folders

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how to allocate disk size for folders in Ubuntu 8.10?

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#1

Do you mean limiting users to a certain amount of home directory space?

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Binaya (iambinaya) said : 		#2

yes..it is.

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Binaya (iambinaya) said : 		#3

well...there are 5 groups and 15 users.i want to allocate 5 GB to all the 15 users and i want to allocate 20 GB to Group 1, 30 GB to Group 2 and so on.How to do this?

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Florian Diesch (diesch) said : 		#4

To limit the disk space a user or a group can allocate you need to enable disk quotas. http://wiki.ubuntu.org.cn/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch28_:_Managing_Disk_Usage_with_Quotas has a nice HOWTO (it's on the Chinese Wiki, but in English)

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Binaya (iambinaya) said : 		#5

thanks florian...it perfectly works..:-)

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Charles Profitt (cprofitt) said : 		#6

Well done Florian! I did not get home in time to answer the question once I was sure what he wanted. Glad you got the help you needed Binaya.