Storage limits per-app

[atrilahiji]

Is this something that is possible? The use case here is providing testing environments to clients for apps that allow user generated content. This can be useful to make sure a single app does not fill a drive.

[robi]

Sounds like tying it into a quota system.

[atrilahiji]

@robi Precisely. I could see it in the same resources section. Default could be dynamic (unrestricted) and a user could set it to a discrete value.

[murgero]

@atrilahiji Interesting request and interesting use case - I think it's a neat idea but only for certain apps (mail, lamp, surfer, nextcloud (especially!), and social networks like Mastodon and pixelfed)

Not sure how the implementation would be though

[jdaviescoates]

@murgero @atrilahiji one way I guess this could be done right now would be create an external volume (e.g. a Hetzner Cloud Volume) and use that as the data folder for the app you don't want filling up the primary disk. You can also check the usage of this disk volume in System info.

[atrilahiji]

@murgero Exactly, I was thinking for stuff like Nextcloud or Moodle specifically.