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Quotas

Quota allows Administrator to specify restriction

in two ways :
Restricting a user or a group by creating files in a
specific location.
Restricting a user or a group by the disk space in a
specific location.

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Advantages of Quotas

The idea behind quotas is that users are

forced to stay under their disk consumption limit
or with number of files in a particular location.
Quota is handled on a per user, per file system
basis.

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Types of Quotas

Quotas are of two types :

User level quotas - usrquota

Group level quotas - grpquota

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Steps for applying Quota on
new partition

Initially create a new partition.

Create a new mount point.

Format the new partition with ext2 or ext3.

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Quotas Creation

To
Toenable
enablethe
thenew
newpartition
partitionwith
withusrquota
usrquotaand
andgrpquota
grpquota
[root@comp1
[root@comp1 ~]#mount -o usrquota, grpquota<part_name>
~]#mount -o usrquota, grpquota <part_name>
<mnt_pt>
<mnt_pt>

To
Togenerate
generatethe
thedatabase
databasefiles
filesinside
insidethe
thequota
quotapartition
partition
[root@comp1
[root@comp1~]#quotacheck
~]#quotacheck -cugv
-cugv <quota_mnt_pt>
<quota_mnt_pt>

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Quotas Creation

To
Toturn
turnon
onthe
thequota
quota
[root@comp1 ~]#quotaon <quota_mnt_pt>
[root@comp1 ~]#quotaon <quota_mnt_pt>

To
Toapply
applythe
thequotas
quotasfor
forthe
theusers
userson
onquota
quotaenabled
enabledpartition
partition
[root@comp1
[root@comp1~]#edquota
~]#edquota -u-u <user
<username>
name>

To
Toapply
applythe
thequotas
quotasfor
foraa group
groupon
onquota
quota enabled
enabledpartition
partition
[root@comp1 ~]#edquota -g <group name>
[root@comp1 ~]#edquota -g <group name>