OS 10.4 - Setting a disk quota?

Audio.Trench · Audio.Trench #1 (**permalink**)

02-24-2006, 01:12 PM

Okay, so the people I'm living with are being dumb about computer usage, since one of their wintel boxes went down, and they're complaining about how there's a password on my PowerBook (for good reasons). Anyways, I've decided to setup a limited user account for them to use, with limitations.

So what I want to do is set a disk-usage limit for them, of around 1gb. So that once they fill that up, they can't download whatever anymore. The problem is, I don't know how to do this. Is it even possible?

MacsWork · MacsWork #2 (**permalink**)

02-25-2006, 05:45 AM

Short of repartitioning your pb and moving the home directory there,...I don't think you can do it without OS X Server.

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Audio.Trench #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 03, 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,719 Mac Specs: Custom PC	02-24-2006, 01:12 PM Okay, so the people I'm living with are being dumb about computer usage, since one of their wintel boxes went down, and they're complaining about how there's a password on my PowerBook (for good reasons). Anyways, I've decided to setup a limited user account for them to use, with limitations. So what I want to do is set a disk-usage limit for them, of around 1gb. So that once they fill that up, they can't download whatever anymore. The problem is, I don't know how to do this. Is it even possible?
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MacsWork #2 (permalink)
Member Since: May 22, 2005 Location: Closer than you think. Posts: 2,074 Mac Specs: Performa 6116 2GBSCSI 8MB OS 7.5.3	02-25-2006, 05:45 AM Short of repartitioning your pb and moving the home directory there,...I don't think you can do it without OS X Server.
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