On Mar 22, 2000 at 16:44, Philip S Tellis wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Satya wrote:
>} On Mar 22, 2000 at 12:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>} >How do i restrict maximum  size of a file for a particular users on Linux
>} quota(8)
>
>AFAIK quota only restricts the number of files and the total size of all
>files.  It cannot restrict the max size of a single file.

Ah, well. Be a BOFH about it and say that if the luser (not Debasis,
he's the BOFH here) wants to fill it's quota with a single large file,
that's the luser's problem. The BOFH is going home early.

See VSNL's accounting for an example of this implementation.

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