Manually Configuring Quotas

Manual configuration of quotas involves changing entries in your system’s file system table, /etc/fstab, to add the usrquota mount option to the desired portion of your file system. As an example in a simple file system, you can enable quota management like this:

LABEL=/           /                ext3    defaults,usrquota        1 1

You can also enable group-level quotas by using the grpquota option. As the root operator, you must then create a file (using our example of creating user quotas) named quota.user in the designated portion of the file system, like so:

matthew@seymour:~$ sudo touch /quota.user

You should then turn on the use of quotas using the ...

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