Set User Quota

User Quota on Fedora 9/10, RHEL 5

Activate User Quota Temporarily:-

mount -o remount,usrquota <your-mounted-directory :-Remember By executing this command quota will activate temporarily.

Activate Quota Permanantly:-

 backup your fstab file by this way cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bkp

 now open your fstab file in your favorite editor i am using vim as my editor

 vim /etc/fstab

 Make permanent entry of your mounted directory like this way

Add this line with your matching information.

<partition-number> <mounted-directory> ext3 defaults,usrquota 0 0

 save & exit

 Now execute this two command in correct order.

1. umount -a

2. mount -a

 quotacheck <your-mounted-directory> :- by Executing this command one file will create in your quota applied directory with file name aquota.user

 quotaon <your-mounted-directory> :- by executing this command quota will turn on on your mounted directory.

 edquota <username-on-which-you-want-to-apply-quota> :- By executing this command one file will open & in that file you need to make changes as per your requirement.

 Below Example will show you how that file look like.

Example of quota file :-

 Disk quotas for user <user-name> (uid 500):

Filesystem                 blocks soft hard inodes soft hard

<partition number> 36         0       0     9        0    0

 Change Blocks’s Soft & Hard as per your requirement.Do the same for inodes’s soft and hard as per your requirement.

 After made changes in that

Save & Exit.

That’s it. Quota Applied Successfully.

 What is blocks & inodes ? Read below for small description.

 Description of Blocks & Inodes:-

              blocks: 1k blocks

• inodes: Number of entries in directory file

What is Soft & hard ? Read below for small description.

Description of Soft & Hard:-

                Soft: Max number of blocks/inodes user may have on partition before warning is issued and grace          period countdown begins.If set to “0″ (zero) then no limit is enforced.

• hard: Max number of blocks/inodes user may have on partition. 
  If set to “0″ (zero) then no limit is enforced.

You can see quota report by using below command

repquota <your-mounted-directory>