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From: Mike <mike@boobaz.net>
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Subject: Re: Using edquota on RH7.0 [was Re: quota on RH7.0]
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For each filesystem you want quotas for, you must edit /etc/fstab and add
the 'usrquota' and/or 'grpquota' options:

	/dev/hda1	/	ext2	defaults,usrquota	1 1

Then you must create the empty files 'quota.user' and/or 'quota.group' at 
the root of each of those partitions:

	# touch /quota.user /quota.group
	# chmod 0600 /quota.*

Then you must run 'quotacheck -a' to look over the filesystem(s) (which
have quota options in /etc/fstab) and it will fill in the quota.* files
for you:

	# quotacheck -a
	< you hear some disk activity >

Now you can edit a user or group quota:

	# edquota -u test

and it's filled out:

Quotas for user test:
/dev/hda1: blocks in use: 6, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
        inodes in use: 6, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)


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-=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=-

On Sun, 13 May 2001 at 17:52, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:

|Yeah, I do recall trying to run edquota before.  However, when editing the
|quota file for a particular user, what is the syntax to use in that file
|to specify hard/soft limits?  The man page does not mention this.
|
|Doug McLean
|
|					"True words seem contradictory."
|							--Lao Zi
|
|On Thu, 10 May 2001, Mike wrote:
|
||It looks to me like 'edquota' might do what you want.
||
||% man -k quota
||edquota              (8)  - edit user quotas
||importquota          (8)  - change running parameters for customs
||quota                (1)  - display disk usage and limits
||quotacheck           (8)  - scan a file system for disk usages
||quotactl             (2)  - manipulate disk quotas
||quotaoff [quotaon]   (8)  - turn file system quotas on and off
||quotaon              (8)  - turn file system quotas on and off
||repquota             (8)  - summarize quotas for a file system
||rpc.rquotad [rquotad] (8)  - remote quota server
||rquota               (3)  - implement quotas on remote machines
||rquotad              (8)  - remote quota server
||
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||-=<(| mike@boobaz.net |)>=-
||
||On Thu, 10 May 2001 at 16:37, 'The Pho Man' Doug McLean wrote:
||
|||How does one establish quotas for user accounts on a linux system like the
|||one above?  I've read alont about Unix quotas, but this mainly applies to
|||systems like AIX, and haven't worked with my linux box at home.  I've run
|||the quota commands (I think its 'quotaon' and 'addquota' if I remember
|||right), but I can't seem to be able to actually define what the account
|||quotas will be.  Thanks!
|||
|||Doug McLean
|||
|||					"True words seem contradictory."
|||							--Lao Zi
|||
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