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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:50:52 +0100
From:      Jose Monteiro <jm@sindigit.pt>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: users and account space
Message-ID:  <20000704105052.A47070@sindigit.pt>
In-Reply-To: <20000704093511.19399.qmail@hotmail.com>; from paisios1@hotmail.com on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 12:35:11PM %2B0300
References:  <20000704093511.19399.qmail@hotmail.com>

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On 04/07/00 10:35 WEST, Paisios Gatsos wrote:
> Hello,
> i want to ask you something about users. Is there a way to limit the storage 
> size that a user have in his home directory? I want for example to set a 
> 40Mbytes limit per user. Is this possible and how?

you need to set up user quotas in the box.

compile a kernel with:

options     QUOTA

after this, there is a set of userland tools you can use to control
disk usage on a per user/group basis.

chech quotaon, quotaoff, edquota, quotacheck and repquota.

Jose Monteiro


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