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Share 50 GB of space with a friend

Posted August 21, 2014 1.6k views

Hey!

I have a friend i would like to share 50GB to on a server i have, but how can i share the 50GB and no more then 50GB ?

OS is debian

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asb August 21, 2014

Check out this tutorial for info on how to limit the user to a specific amount of disk space:

How To Enable User and Group Quotas

Then if you want to limit the user to only accessing their home directory over SFTP, you can edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to include:

Match User username
    ChrootDirectory %h
    AllowTCPForwarding no
    X11Forwarding no
    ForceCommand internal-sftp
How To Enable User and Group Quotas
by Jan Stevens
Quotas are used to limit the amount of disk space a user or group can use on the server. There are generally two different methods of managing quotas: first, an empty file system can be created and mounted for a specific user.
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Stefan H. August 22, 2014

Thanks, i’ll have a look at that :)

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