Can you set disk space limits for users?

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  1. sprice05, Dec 16, 2005

    sprice05 macrumors newbie

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    I work at a college and we have macs in our classrooms. There are 6 user logins, (lab manager and 5 class logins). We want to set disk limits for each class login. For example, we want each class to have up to 20gb's of storage for their login. Can this be done? We are on a budget too. If this can't be done, what are our alternatives? We only have 80gb hard drives in the macs so it would be a hassle splitting the hd into 6 partitions and installing the OS on each partition.
     
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  2. jlewis2k1, Dec 16, 2005

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    i think you can do something where it could mount a network drive and set permissions to where they can only save on that mounted drive.
     
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  3. mrichmon, Dec 16, 2005

    mrichmon macrumors 6502a

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    Yes. What you are describing is also known as setting a disk quota.

    Instructions for setting this up under OS X 10.4 can be found at http://sial.org/howto/osx/quota/
     
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