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Add frontend for user disk quota management.

Bug #215476 reported by Fred
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Bug Description

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See Ubuntu Brainstorm idea here: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/6819/
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Many people in my family use the computer.
My mom, dad, sister and brothers.

Everyone have their own user account, and want to download and save stuff, but the hard disk drive have limited capacity.

Add so you can assign "disk quotas" for the user accounts, so that I can limit the accounts to say 1 gigabyte each.

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netster403 (webmaster-codekungfoo) wrote :

Linux already has built in user quota support. I admit there is not frontend for it though... See http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html.

Maybe a nice enhancement request for a frontend to this functionality?

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Fred (eldmannen+launchpad) wrote :

Oh, thats silly.
I have to patch the kernel, recompile the kernel, compile and install the quota software, modify startup scripts, modify fstab, activate the quota system, and add quotacheck to crontab?

Wow... uhm yeah right, lol.

I want to set quota in System->Administration->Users & Group.

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netster403 (webmaster-codekungfoo) wrote :

thats why i changed the topic to 'frontend', linux already supports quotas you want a user friendly way to use them ;)

You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel though that was an old guide... see here:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2139737,00.asp

Greg Grossmeier (greg.grossmeier)
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SF007 (sf007) wrote :

A frontend for user disk quota management would be very much appreciated...

Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)
tags: added: disk frontend quota
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