7.3. Enabling Quotas for a Filesystem

If the main page of the module shows User Quotas Active (or Group Quotas Active) under the Status column for the filesystem, then quotas have already been enabled. If not, to configure and turn on quotas for an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, follow these steps:

1.
If the filesystem already appears in the list on the main page of the module, quotas have already been configured and you can skip to Step 5.
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Go to the Disk and Network Filesystems module and click on the filesystem on which you want to enable quotas.
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Change the Use Quotas? option to either User only, Group only, or User and Group depending on which kinds of quota you want to enforce.
4.
Click the Save button. If an error appears saying that the filesystem ...

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