Per User Disc Quota's

Hi

Can this be done ?

I want to set up a box (probably Gentoo) to act as a remote (access from the web) fileserver/storage box. It will be stand alone in as much as it will perform no other function.

I envisage setting up the machine with two discs, hda to hold the OS and not accessible by anyone other than myself. And a second storage disc, hdb.

What I would like to do is set up the storage disc in say, 5Gb chunks that can be allocated on a per user basis. ie When I create a new user, 5Gb of the storage disc becomes theirs to do with what they will, whilst still maintaining admin (ie me) access for security/integrity reasons.

I know that you can set up disc quota's in fstab somehow (still got to read the man pages !) but how would I allocate the chunks to each new user as and when they are created. Would I have to have some sort of script ? or is there a better way.

I am at a very early stage in the project and have an awful lot of reading to do before I give it a go. I am just after some thoughts as to feasibility and any config hints that people may have.

Regards :)

Bubo

Keep reading... and, include this:

Code:

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man setquota

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Tried that already !

Got this:

Code:

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stu@1[~]$ man setquota
No manual entry for setquota
stu@1[~]$ su -
Password:
root@1[~]# man setquota
No manual entry for setquota
root@1[~]#

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Regards

Bubo

If you do not have '/usr/sbin/setquota', then...

Your installation may be missing some [system utility] code -- perhaps you may need to locate and load it from installation disks, or find and download it from the Gentoo/Slackware/Zenwalk/Suse/Fedora distro website?

If all else fails, create 5Gb partitions and mount each with the proper user/group privileges... :)

Thanks for that.

I've obviously got a lot of reading ahead of me, but at least I'll be loooking in the right direction now !

Regards

Bubo