changing ownership

[Fred Magee]

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 at atk.com
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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.

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