Creating a folder with limited size

Creating a folder with limited size

To create a folder with fixed size, one of the solutions is to create a limited size filesystem and mount it.

Create a file that will be a container of the filesystem. Just take ANY file on your system that has a suitable size, or create one by

$ dd if=/dev/null of=~/myfs bs=SIZE_OF_BLOCK_IN_BYTES count=SIZE

Format the file with the FS you want

$ mkfs.ext4 ~/myfs

It will say that it creates an FS on a non-block device.



Mount the FS

mount -o loop,rw,usrquota,grpquota ~/myfs  /path/of/mount/point

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