Quota Implement

QUOTA

The quota system allow an administrator to establish limits on the amount of disk resource users consume.

Quota implement on user and group.

Example implement quota for /home

Open /etc/fstab

Hear edit  near /home  defaults,usrquota

After that save the file

              #mount  -a

After that remount the /home

              #mount –o remount /home

              #quotacheck –avum (to check quota for all user)

              #quotaon /home ( to enable quota)

              #quotaoff ( to disable quota)

User Quota Implement

              #edquota –u username

A file will open here

              Filesystem blocks soft hard inode soft hard

              /dev/sda6 64        120  150  8        0   0

Save the file

The grace period is by defaults 7 days

              #repquota –a (for root check the quota)

              #quota (user check the quota)

              #edquota –t (to change the grace period)

              #edquota –T username ( to change the quota for particular user)

Quota on Group

In the /etc/fstab

/home   defaults, usrquota,grpquota

And save

               #usermod –g  groupname username (add a user in group)

               #quotacheck –avgm (  to check the quota on group)

               #edquota –g groupname (to implement the quota in group)