Good question, Ed. I've used quotas in many past incarnations as System Administrator but always in whatever we used for "home" directories. If I changed the ownership of my home directory I would expect the new owner to be charged with the space used. The only time I've run into this situation legitimately is when user x left and all of his files were transferred to user y. I would then increase user y's quota to include the inherited files until they could be sanitized. I have had less than "ept" users change ownership of their home directories accidentally but it hasn't caused a quota issue that I recall. Fred Magee ATK Mission Research (505)768-7783 fred.magee@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 9:16 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: changing ownership On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:51:46AM -0700, Fred Magee wrote: > If I change ownership to user "y" but the file still exists in my home > directory, won't it still be charged to my quota not the other users'? I believe it is charged to the owner of the file and not based on where in the file system the file happens to sit. What would you expect to have happen if you changed the owner of your home directory to user "y"? BTW, please do some snipping in your replies - we don't need to see multiple copies of the redhat-list trailer info. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
