CentOS

hi guys,

i have seen this link and its exactly what im after but im just wondering how you set a quota for user rob and i want it set to 500gb?

https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Depl ... uotas.html

many thanks,

rob

mmm...

is this just a warning system and not what i thought it was ie if user rob hits the 500gb mark it wont allow rob to consume more space on the directory?

That documentation is from CentOS 5, you are posting in a CentOS 7 forum. You really shouldn't be using CentOS 5, it is no longer supported, and if you are using C6 or C7 then don't rely on C5 manuals.

The user and group quotas are for a filesystem, not for a directory.

Yes, one can not consume more than the hard limit.

The default filesystem in CentOS 7 is XFS. XFS has user and group quotas, but it can alternatively have project quotas. Project quota can be for a directory.

Setting quotas on XFS is different than on Ext*-filesystems. We don't know what you have.

couldn't be bothered wasting  my time trying to figure out quota so in the end i used parted to make different size partitions on my hard drive and after i partitioned it i ran mkfs to format the partitions

thanks i will look into the new XFS file system on centos 7 and set up quotas