directory quota for root ?

[Ed Kim]

Hey all,
I have a system with redhat 9 and quotas set up; however, I would like to 
limit the amount of space that the root user has to write to a certain 
directory without making the directory a seperate partition.
Basically, I have a c++ program which needs to be run under root, and which 
stores data to a certain directory.  The program stores until the directory 
runs out of space ( previously it was linked to a seperate partition) so 
this works ok.  But we would like to keep this directory now on the same 
partition so that when it issues a 'mv' command, it won't have to do so much 
disk io... ( these are large files -> 3+gb).

I've attempted to setup a user with a quota, but when the program is 
executed as root, it ignores the user quota.  I've attempted to create a 
user with UID = 0 and setup quotas for this user, but it changes root quota 
as well.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Ed

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