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permalink · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:45 PM

Hi,

Is it possible to set the quota system on disk usage so that in general
the members of a group have common limits (set by 'edquota -g group')
but some of the members have individual limits set by 'edquota user'?

I tried to do this (setting group quota to 10000 blocks and one of the
users' quota to 30000) but it did not work as expected - the group quota
(or maybe just the lower one) apparently took the precedence and the
user could not go beyond his group limits.

I think it qould be a good idea to make such a 'trick' possible (if it
is not possible now, of course

- to make user quotas of higher
precedence than grouop quotas. The alternative - setting quotas
individually for each member of possible numerous group, or assigning
different group to particular users - seems much more complicated.

regards, Michal.

--
Michal Szymanski (msz@astrouw.edu.pl)
Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND

permalink · #2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 06:45 PM

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 09:23:03 +0000, Michal Szymanski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to set the quota system on disk usage so that in general
> the members of a group have common limits (set by 'edquota -g group')
> but some of the members have individual limits set by 'edquota user'?
>
> I tried to do this (setting group quota to 10000 blocks and one of the
> users' quota to 30000) but it did not work as expected - the group quota
> (or maybe just the lower one) apparently took the precedence and the
> user could not go beyond his group limits.
>
> I think it qould be a good idea to make such a 'trick' possible (if it
> is not possible now, of course

- to make user quotas of higher
> precedence than grouop quotas. The alternative - setting quotas
> individually for each member of possible numerous group, or assigning
> different group to particular users - seems much more complicated.
Maybe it would work if you set the group limit to say 40000 blocks and
your main user to 30000 blocks and each of you other users to a proportion
of the remaining 10000 blocks.

Just a thought - but I could be thinking nonsense.

--
Neil
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