[Linux-disciples] Max folder size.

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Karl Sokol wrote:
> I have a folder that I am downloading a bunch of stuff into.  Is there a
> command to set a maximum size for the folder?

Not really.  You could set up a new partition that was exactly as big as
you wanted the limit to be and mount that new partition as your download
folder.  You could implement quotas, but I don't know of any way of a
quota being other than per-user-home-directory.  You might be able to
wangle something by creating a new user with a small quota ... but I
think you'd have to run your web browser as that user (assuming you're
downloading from web browser; if not FTP client or whatever) and save to
that user's home dir...

There's also the ulimit bash builtin, but that limits the size of a
single file, not many files.
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