Quotas

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Quotas

Quota allows Administrator to specify restriction in two ways : Restricting a user or a group by creating files in a specific location. Restricting a user or a group by the disk space in a specific location.

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Advantages of Quotas

The idea behind quotas is that users are forced to stay under their disk consumption limit or with number of files in a particular location. Quota is handled on a per user, per file system basis.

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Types of Quotas

Quotas are of two types : User level quotas

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usrquota

Group level quotas

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grpquota

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Steps for applying Quota on new partition

Initially create a new partition. Create a new mount point. Format the new partition with ext2 or ext3.

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Quotas Creation

To Toenable enablethe thenew newpartition partitionwith withusrquota usrquotaand andgrpquota grpquota [root@comp1 ~]#mount -o usrquota, grpquota [root@comp1 ~]#mount -o usrquota, grpquota<part_name> <part_name> <mnt_pt> <mnt_pt>

To Togenerate generatethe thedatabase databasefiles filesinside insidethe thequota quotapartition partition [root@comp1 [root@comp1~]#quotacheck ~]#quotacheck -cugv -cugv

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Quotas Creation

To Toturn turnon onthe thequota quota [root@comp1 ~]#quotaon [root@comp1 ~]#quotaon

To Toapply applythe thequotas quotasfor forthe theusers userson onquota quotaenabled enabledpartition partition [root@comp1 [root@comp1~]#edquota ~]#edquota -u -u <user <username> name>

To Toapply applythe thequotas quotasfor foraa group groupon onquota quota enabled enabledpartition partition [root@comp1 ~]#edquota -g [root@comp1 ~]#edquota -g

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