Re: Filesystem Quotas

[fiaid@quasi-sane.com]

make chmod 700.  tell them if they try that sh...poo again that you will 
allow me to help them with their computing needs.  that is usually enough 
to get them inline.  if they need to share data, create a volume of a 
certain size and tell them to share it in there.  otherwise, quit it.

> 
> 	Interesting dilema.  We have a number of NFS shared filesystems 
> that we give chunks of space on to the scientists here, and control those 
> chunks via quotas.  Some of the scientists have figured out (intentionally 
> or otherwise) that if they allow their collegues to write files underneath 
> their directories, the quota has no effect, because the files are owned by 
> someone else.
> 
> 	For instance, luser1 has a quota of 200GB, but creates a directory 
> /home/luser1/luser2 that luser2 can write to, under the auspices of 
> sharing data.  luser2 dumps 250GB of data to that directory, and the quota 
> system could care less.
> 
> 	So, my question is, is there a way to prevent writes to a
> filesystem unless the user has a quota?
> 
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> 	     Richard H. Fifarek	       		rfifarek@silug.org
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