Can I limit disk space for an account?

Hi
I have set up a non-admin account for my partner to use, but she is in the habit of saving lots of video files which is eating up my disk space. Is there any way I can set a limit to the disk space available to her account?
Cheers, Brett l-s

Yes. Mac OS X supports the notion of user quotas for disk space. Since you are asking the question, I can presume that you probably aren't familiar with the notion of a UNIX disk quota and will probably be a little disappointed that enabling it will require some mucking about in the UNIX shell using Terminal.app.
Namely, use 'edquota' to setup the quotas for various users, use 'quotaon' on turn on quotas, and 'repquota' and 'quotacheck' to report on the disk and user quota status. Pretty much like BSD UNIX.
Be forewarned, however, that Finder knows nothing about quotas -- it cannot tell a user that they have one, it can't tell how close they are to filling it up, and when it can't copy/write a file because a user's over their quota, it has no idea why it can't do it and just tells the user that "something" is wrong.

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