User Setting Disk Quota

[Brizzzer]

I am a user and I was wondering if I can set a disk quota on a folder or something like that. I want to give a friend a ftp for some of his files and I don't want him getting carried away with the space. Is there a way for me to set a disk quota on a folder?

Thanks, Brizzzer

 

[jmstacey]

DirectAdmin isn't capable of that. You could write your own small script which would monitor the size of the directory and notify you when it goes over a certain threshold.

 

[Brizzzer]

Thanks for the replay. OK, if thats the only thing I can do about it how do I write the scrpt and where to I put the script? Thanks

 

[jmstacey]

Thats all personal preference. You can write the script in any language of your choosing.
A shell script using the du system command would probably be the easiest way to do it.
Execute the script however often you want with a cronjob.

It doesn't really matter where you put it depending on how you write the script (i.e. using full or relative paths etc.)