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Description
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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Attachments
 Bug #215476 : Add frontend for user disk quota management.
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nami wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 11:02
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Fantastic idea, I think the whole user creation section needs improving, i.e when creating a user, it should allow you to specify stuff like this, and it should give you the option to make their files private from the rest of the users or not.
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loonyphoenix wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 12:30
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Well, I would create a separate partition for every user (of a fixed size) and mount it on /home/user/
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BadChoice wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 12:59
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It's already implemented, just needs a GUI
apt-get install quota
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Eldmannen wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 14:40
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nami,
Indeed.
loonyphoenix,
That is overly complex.
Whenever I have to add or remove an account or change the quota, I would have to repartition the whole disk, that is silly!
BadChoice,
Oh... I didn't know.
It should be installed by default though, and configurable via a GUI.
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loonyphoenix wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 15:14
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Well, that was just a thought. I understand that's not a perfect solution. :) Anyway, I've never worked in a multi-user environment. On my ubuntu installation there are only two users: me and the passwordless root.
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wleoncio wrote on the 11 Apr 08 at 16:52
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Very nice. +1
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glibik wrote on the 13 Apr 08 at 07:58
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I don't understand why so many contributors here, seem to believe that every tool or utility should have a GUI. :-\
Is using a keyboard really that difficult? :-(
There's not much point voting this up since, as BadChoice reminded us, such a facility already exists.
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nedu wrote on the 16 Apr 08 at 17:17
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ISTM, per-user resource limits (including, inter alia, disk quotas) are an awfully good idea for multi-user operating systems.
Further, over the past half-century or so, I think they've been a pretty popular idea.
I don't know what to make of the large positive vote for this brainstorm.
Heck, I'm tempted to vote it up myself. Per user disk quotas... yes/no?: Yes, good idea, +1.
OTOH, maybe teh positive vote means something entirely different. Maybe it means that the people voting this up don't have any idea that the feature has already been implemented. In that case, the votes indirectly indicate a widespread administrator-education bug.
Or perhaps it really is a UI issue. Perhaps --in today's modern, fast-paced, ever-changing world-- it's just not reasonable to expect people administering multi-user boxen to ever leave the warm-comfort of their gui....
I don't know. So +/-0. Tell me what it means, please.
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Breakable wrote on the 17 Apr 08 at 10:52
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Lets vote for adding a GUI!
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stevec wrote on the 16 Jun 08 at 19:49
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I'm also voting in favor of a gui, and/or a simplified command line interface. As it stands you have to install quota, edit your fstab, remount the affected partitions, enable quotas, and edit the quotas.
Overall it's not a very complicated process and there are walkthroughs for it, but I think it would benefit from being replaced with a step by step script for server versions of Ubuntu or a GUI (possibly integrated with the users and groups manager) in the desktop edition.
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