Thanks James, although it was not exactly what I was looking for (I wanted to assign a limit to a single folder, not to the whole system), your suggestion drived me to find out the C function 'setrlimit', with which I can assign a maximum numbers of bytes that can take each file created by a program after calling this function.
Thanks again, Asier On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 7:31 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Asier, > > The command you may want is ulimit. This will limit the size of a > specific file and since in Linux everything is a file it has affect on > directories as well. (Although not as fine tuned.) The man page for > Ulimite bytes and I haven't found a good ref on how to use it here. > Basically you enter a size in k so for a 2 meg limit you would do > > ulimit 2048 > > and now you can't create a file larger than 2 megs. Since I usually use > things the way they are (unlimited) I do it that way. Downside. This > affects all users on the box. All file systems etc. For something > finer grained I'm not sure. > > James
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