Disk quota configration at RedHat Linux

Linux OS disk quota configuration for local users and group.

Install Binary Package

rpm –i quota~.rpm

Modify /etc/fstab

LABEL=LINUX / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 auto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Create Quota Files

touch /aquota.user
touch /aquota.group
chmod 600 /aquota.user
chmod 600 /aquota.group

Reboot the system

reboot

or

mount / -o rw,remount

Test the quota mount

Quotacheck

quotacheck –aumv
quotacheck –avgm ( group )

Quota On

quotaon –auvg

Assign for User/Group

edquota –u username
edquota –g groupname

In this part, you would set limit for Users' Soft and Hard limit.

Quota Commands

quotacheck
quotaon/off
quotastats
setquota
quota
repquota