How to set file size limit to directories?

[anukus]

Hi,
Im creating an directory to store all users directories and i want to limit the file limit for each user i.e. 10M for MARY dir, 20M for JOHN and so on...

How do i set it and how do i see the result after setting?

thanks

 

[mikeclark]

You will probably have to implement quotas see man quota and quotad

 

[anukus]

Hi mikeclark,
Thanks for the response. but quota can only be set on filesystem only. What i need is total size limit set on user's home directory.

 

[Annihilannic]

Presumably the home directory would be the only place on that filesystem they could write to, in which case quotas would do the trick?

Otherwise you would probably have to write your own scripts to manually do a du on their home directories and alert them or yourself when they go over your limit. Annihilannic.