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Chapter 7 Setting Up Home Folders 129
Setting Disk Quotas
You can limit the disk space users have available to store files in the volume where their
home folders reside.
This quota applies to all files that the user stores in the volume where his or her home
folder resides, including all files stored in the user’s drop box. Therefore, when a user
places files in another user’s drop box, it can affect the other user’s disk quota or have
other effects, such as:
 When you copy a file to a user’s AFP drop box, the owner of the drop box becomes
the owner of the file.
 In NFS, when you copy a file to another folder, you remain the owner and the copy
operation reduces your disk quota on a particular partition.
To set up a home folder share point disk quota using Workgroup Manager:
1 In Workgroup Manager, click Accounts.
2 Select the user account you want to work with.
To select an account, connect to the server where the account resides, click the globe
icon, choose the directory domain where the user account is stored, click the Users
button, and then select the user account.
3 To authenticate, click the lock and enter the name and password of a directory domain
administrator.
4 Click Home, specify the disk quota using the Disk Quota field and the adjacent pop-up
menu, and then click Save.
5 Make sure disk quotas are enabled for the volume where the share point resides.
6 In Server Admin, select the server hosting home folders and then click File Sharing.
7 Click Volumes and then select the volume that stores home folders.
8 Click Quotas, select “Enable quotas on this volume,” and then click Save.
WARNING: If you set a disk quota on a user with a mobile account, the quota only
affects the user’s network home folder. There are no quota restrictions on the user’s
local home folder. Setting the quota too low can cause sync issues and data loss. For
example, if you set a 250 MB quota and the user uses 500 MB on his or her local home
folder, the mobile account doesn’t sync entirely. The home folders sync until the 250
MB quota is met, and unsynced files remain local. When the user logs in to another
computer and syncs, only 250 MB of data syncs from the network home folder.