directory quota for root ?

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:20:21PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> My understanding is that quotas are on a filesystem basis...you'd have to 
> have some sort of logic built into the code that basically did the 
> equivalent of "du" on the directory, to get the current disk usage.

Thinking out of the box and not trying it...what if you did a bind mount
(or whatever it's called) that makes it look like a separate mount
point?  Could you put a quota file on that and have it work?

        .../Ed

> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ed Kim wrote:
> 
> > 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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> Mike Burger
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