Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way you > will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this cannot > be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control over the > resources permission...
but i am using RAID 1, and if i divide the partition in few or many chunks it means i am creating more RAID 1 drives, is it practical ? i mean i never tried that , according to you experience what you say? On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:13:13 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > (...) > >>> To setup quotas in samba you basically need setup two things: >>> >>> - Enabling quotas for the mount point that holds the stored data (which >>> usually means installing "quota" and "quota tool" packages). >>> >>> - Enabling samba quotas by configuring the corresponding samba VFS >>> module. >>> >>> (there are many guides and information on how to setup these two things >>> on the Internet...) >> >> did you mean that in order to apply quota i have to implement it in >> samba config file and on mount point also. only applying quota on mount >> point will not work, is that what you mean? > > If you want to control the available space from windows clients you have > to enable the corresponding VFS module in samba, which is just editing a > couple of samba configuration lines, nothing more. > >> can you please guide me to some proper step by step example? > > Nope, sorry. That information can be found easily over Internet ;-) > >>> Another thing you do is discarding the use of quotas in the samba share >>> and monitor the available disk space in the linux volume, warning the >>> admin when the disk capacity reaches a defined percentage of use. >>> >>> >> no i can not do that. actually i am the admin and network engineer at >> the same time i am a one man army doing everything :P anyways. our users >> are very irresponsible i know they will dump their personal data to >> their personal folder they think personal folder on fileserver means >> storage for any thing ;) so better telling and teaching every one quota >> is a best solution in my case > > Then how about repartition the whole volume in small chunks? That way you > will limiting the available space by the partition size, and this cannot > be avoided, can be easily monitored, you will have more control over the > resources permission... > >>> But designing and defining a good policy for samba to fit your network >>> requirements is not a simple task and requires high doses of trial and >>> error tests, fighting with users and permissions before you can put it >>> under production. >> >> thanks for sharing you experience, but i was reading an article the guy >> was suggesting to use a virtual file system image. so that how big you >> create the file your quota will be limited to that image size no matter >> whoever is accessing that share. but definitely this is a work around. >> any suggestion on that? > > Mmm... yes, I also have read something like that in some articles and > forum threads but I'd be very hesitant to try it in my own systems (I > value my data) and given that is not the usual case for using a samba > share, should I wanted to explore that option to be implemented in my > network I would first run some tests with unimportant data on the share > and over a virtualmchine to see how it behaves. Sorry, I can't give you > more feedback on this, I have never tried it, but you can do your own > tests :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jm99be$ehq$1...@dough.gmane.org >
