Home / server / Questions / 171407
In Process
Manivasagan
Asked: 2010-08-18 05:36:13 +0800 CST

How to give quota for linux users?

  • 772

I want to give quota for each user on my linux box, so that each one will get only specified amount of disk space.

linux disk-space-utilization quota

3 Answers

  1. Ideally you will have /home as a separate partition. If you do, try this:
    Find the filesystem for /home, for example:
    mount | grep "/home"
    /dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro)
    mount -o remount,quota /home
    quotacheck /dev/sda3
    edquota username
    Set the soft and hard quotas in there. This will only apply for the current boot, to make it survive a reboot edit /etc/fstab and add ",quota" to the end of the mount options for /dev/sda3 (in this example).

    • 3

  2. Fredley tutorial is kinda out of date. This one is the one you need: Quota Mini Howto

    Basically you need to enable quotas on /etc/fstab and configure the quotas using the quota tools (edquota, mainly). Is also cool to configure quotacheck as a cron job.

    Remember that quota is enabled per filesystem, so if you have 3 different partitions you have to enable and edit the quotas on each one of them. Just read the howto carefully and you will be set.

    • 1
    • 0