limiting the space through script

[sushilrangari]

Hi,

This is sushil just joined a company and have task in hand.

help me on this .. i have some 70-80 projects(Folder) with me, which gets updating now and than,

so i need a script which identify the size of each project and compare with 5 GB parameter ,as i want to set each project should have 5GB of space above that user should not able to write or update anything.


Please help me on this i do not want to use Quota here as i have UID and GID for all the projects same which was set by previous employee


Thanks in advance

[sushilrangari]

Hi,


Please Any help on this

[JohnGraham]

You can use `du -s' to get the size of a directory in kilobytes.

[sushilrangari]

Thanks john for replying on this.

but the actual issue is how to setup a script to prohibit the excess of a folder after 5 GB of use!!

[Irithori]

quotas.

Everything else is reinventing the wheel.
So yes: you would need to rethink the uid/gid.