From: "Geo." 

"Scott.Little"  wrote in message
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>  G> I don't know the answer but I also have a question about quotas on
>  G> Linux. Can you set a quota for a directory (and sub directories)
>  G> instead of by user?
>
> You could use group quotas.. or make a file of the required size, and
mount
> that in said directory.

I don't think either of those would work for the use I had in mind.

One of the things I like about NT and wsftpd is that I can setup a user
with a homepage site and they have access granted by wsftpd (it handles the
logins and passwords) but I don't add the user to the NT user database so
it grants users no rights to the machine except for specific ftp access.
And all ftp access is restricted by a single account that I run wsftpd
under. Keeps things clean and simple for security setups.

The downside is I can't base quotas on this because there are no userID's
being used that the system gets to see, so I need disk quotas based on
folder not user.

I was just wondering if it was available on Linux and if so how it worked.
Seems to me it would be a pretty simple thing to implement in a file system
so I'm kinda surprised nobody's doing it.

Geo.

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