Re: Filesystem and free space

2021-12-13 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-12-13 2:47 a.m., Tom Dial wrote: > > > On 12/12/21 12:28, Teemu Likonen wrote: >> * 2021-12-12 14:13:19-0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> >>> How can I ensure that user (or a software being run by a user that >>> goes crazy) doesn't fill up the whole filesystem ? >>

Re: Filesystem and free space

2021-12-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I know there's quota but what I want to ensure is simply that no user can write to disk unless there's at least 2 GB left free on partition. Is this possible ? As another has mentioned, there's

Re: Filesystem and free space

2021-12-13 Thread Tom Dial
On 12/12/21 12:28, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2021-12-12 14:13:19-0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >> How can I ensure that user (or a software being run by a user that >> goes crazy) doesn't fill up the whole filesystem ? > Commands mkfs.ext4 and tune2fs have this option: > >

Re: Filesystem and free space

2021-12-12 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2021-12-12 14:13:19-0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > How can I ensure that user (or a software being run by a user that > goes crazy) doesn't fill up the whole filesystem ? Commands mkfs.ext4 and tune2fs have this option: -m reserved-blocks-percentage Set the

Filesystem and free space

2021-12-12 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, I've learned thru this mailing list that it was something "from decades ago" to create a filesystem for /tmp, /var, /home, /usr, etc unless really needed. I must admit it make sense and I'd be better served by either a one partition or only a /home separate. Now here's my question : How can I