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Quota Management for users and shared folders
Posted: 30 Nov 2025, 12:03
by Maniform
Hi,
Quota Management is a feature that I would like to use but there's something I don't understand.
- BTRFS
- User: unavailable
- Shared Folder: available
- Ext4
- User: available
- Shared Folder : unavailable
It sounds really weird that the feature is splitted that way. Can't it be open to both partition format ?
Re: Quota Management for users and shared folders [Accepted]
Posted: 02 Dec 2025, 09:10
by CursaYang
The two features use completely different underlying technical approaches. BTRFS happens to perfectly support 'folder quotas', while Ext4 happens to perfectly support 'user quotas', which is why you see this mutually exclusive situation.
Re: Quota Management for users and shared folders
Posted: 03 Dec 2025, 06:22
by Maniform
Thank you for the answer.
From my perspective, I find weird to consider that a user is not a folder but I don't know the differences between
btrfs and
ext4 so I'll take your answer as it is.
