Enabling Quotas

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Enabling Quotas

Enabling Quotas

Saturday, July 24, 2004 by digitalpeer

Edit your fstab entry to something like

/dev/hda1  /home  ext3  defaults,usrquota  1 2

umount and mount the disk read-only
run quotacheck -c /home to create the quota file in the root directory of the disk
umount and mount the disk read-write
run quotaon /home to turn on the quota checking
use edquota or setquota to set individual quotas

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