I have a system with redhat 9 and quotas set up; however, I would like to limit the amount of space that the root user has to write to a certain directory without making the directory a seperate partition.
Basically, I have a c++ program which needs to be run under root, and which stores data to a certain directory. The program stores until the directory runs out of space ( previously it was linked to a seperate partition) so this works ok. But we would like to keep this directory now on the same partition so that when it issues a 'mv' command, it won't have to do so much disk io... ( these are large files -> 3+gb).
I've attempted to setup a user with a quota, but when the program is executed as root, it ignores the user quota. I've attempted to create a user with UID = 0 and setup quotas for this user, but it changes root quota as well.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Ed
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