How to setup per-user disk quotas in macOS Monterey? The BSD quota
functionality seems unworkable any longer since the root file system is
read-only.
And I don't find anything in the Apple documentation.
All the search I've done in Google shows how to do it on old macos version, which don't work with Monterey.
Any help or hint would be great!
Regards,
Alessandro
Assuming that you don't have too many users, you could set up multiple APFS volumes (one per user) in the same container. You should be able to specify a disk quota for each such volume. Also, the storage allocated to the container is shared by all of its APFS volumes.
- Pie Lover
Assuming that you don't have too many users, you could set up multiple APFS volumes (one per user) in the same container. You should be able to specify a disk quota for each such volume. Also, the storage allocated to the container is shared by all of its APFS volumes.
- Pie Lover
Ah... I didn't know this feature of the APFS volumes! Seems interesting :-D
Let say I create 2 APFS volumes (volumeA and volumeB), each with a limitation of 500GB (quota) on my 2TB container.
I have userA and userB.
Can I mount the volumeA on /Users/userA and volumeB on /Users/userB?
That way they do whatever they want on their home directory until the limit (quota) is reached.
Is it possible? (probably yes :-D but just want to be sure!)
Probably I need to create the volumes and the mounts before creating the users.
Regards,
Alessandro
I haven't created a new user recently, but I believe that Users & Groups System Preference panel includes the option to change the home folder.
- Pie Lover
from Apple Support Community
User Disk Quota on Monterey
