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Ch 07 Disk Quotas

Vi /etc/fstab

The old /etc/fstab looked like
LABEL=/home       /home          ext3    defaults           1 2

but your new /etc/fstab should be
LABEL=/home       /home          ext3    defaults,usrquota  1 2


# mount –o remount /home

#cd /home

# touch aquota.user

#chmod 600 aquota.user

#quotacheck –vu /home
#quotacheck –vum /home (to force fully cheking)

#quotaon –a   or  #quotaon /home

to quota on to particular directory.

#quotaff –a
to quota off

#quotastaus
to know the status of quota


Assign Quota to User

#edquota –u username

this command needs to fill field below

Filesystem        blocks    soft        hard        indos    soft

Hard/dev/hda?   1572        0        0        199        0


#edquota –t

edit grace period an inode grace period

#rm –rf *

to remove all files from directory.


#reportquota –a
(to see how much of data uses)

#quotaoff –a

(to off quota service and remove from fstab )

#mount –o remount /home

(Remove entry from usrquota)
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