[Samba] Re: Samba + Share Quota's
Igor Belyi
sambauser at katehok.ac93.org
Thu Sep 23 11:56:36 GMT 2004
Bart Hendrix wrote:
> Hi Samba users.
>
> I have the following problem and I hope somebody can help me:
>
> I installed Samba on a White Box linux machine and used LDAP for authentication.
> I created a directory /work/shares. In /work/shares are all share directories created.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that the total capacity of each share is the same because they are on the same partition.
> (So /work/shares/test and /work/shares/software both used 80 GB from a total of 120 GB free space, but /test used 20 GB and /software 60 GB)
>
> Is it possible to configure the free space size with smbcquota's?
>
> I tried this but I couldn't configure it because I dont know the values of soft/hard limit. (smbcquotas //fileserver/test -S FSQLIM:<softlimit>/<hardlimit>)
>
> Is smbcquota's the right program or is there a different solution?
smbcquota is to manage quotas setup on NT shares if they enabled. As far
as I understood you want to have quotas on Linux shares and by the look
of it not a user quotas. This can be achieved by spliting your one big
partition into two. I don't see any other way. But I'm just another user.
Igor
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