no you dont need to implement quota on your /var if it is another partition or disk just move your /var/spool directory to your /home drive and create link by ln -s in your /var partition to link it to /home/newvarspool directory this helped me a great and and my back time and size came down by half so it should help you or you can also ask for arvind on this group who helped me originally Regards, Hiten. --- "Gupta, Amit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ( Version RedHat 7.2 ) > > > Hello Friends, > > I am trying to configure Quota for the users on my > Linux box ( Redhat 7.2 ), > as my users have directory on 2 places /usr/* and > /var/spool/mail/*, now I > can understand that I have to made Quota support > enable on both the > partitions, by editing /etc/fstab, now I have one > Question > > As I have to fix quota only for our subscribers ( we > are ISP here ), for > their mail boxes and home directory, and all such > users ( subscribers ) are > put under 1 group "Subscribers", what will happen If > i allot quota by group > quota command to whole group 'subscribers' will that > be applicable for > a) accumulated quota for all users of group > 'subscriber' > or that quota will be applicable > b) for all individual memebrs of that group. > > For example if I define quota for the group > subscribers, having 5 members > ( soft limit 5 MB, hard limit 10 MB), than will it > be cumulative space for 5 > users on disk, or will it provide 5 Mb soft limit to > each memebr of group > subscriber ? > > > Please answer my query, it may be a silly question > for many of u !! > > > Thanking you in anticipation,, > > Amit Gupta > Network Administrator, > Kappa Infotech Private Limited, Kota > > www.kappa.net.in > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application > Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- > http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
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