[lug] Reserving part of a file system -- quotas or something else

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Mon Nov 8 16:01:37 MST 2010


On 11/08/2010 03:32 PM, David Ahern wrote:
>
> If it's a local filesystem using ext2, ext3 or ext4 you can reserve
> filesystem blocks (tune2fs -m) and create a group for the users and set
> the group for the reserved blocks (tune2fs -g).
>
> David

Although I think reserved blocks don't show up with df, which might cause 
confusion depending on how much space you are talking about.

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