Many times it is required to enable the quota on a drive where there is mostly user data in order to check the size used by a specific user on the system. For that, we must have enabled quota on the drive. <\/p>\n
The following are the steps using which we can enable the quota:- <\/p>\n
Step 1: First of all make sure that the ‘quota’ package has been installed on the system and if not then do install it using the command below:- <\/p>\n
yum install quota<\/p>\n
Step 2: Go to \/etc\/fstab file and write usrquota next to the default against the partition on which you want to enable the quota as below :-
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\/dev\/sda1 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\/home\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ext4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 defaults,usrquota\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01
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then save and quit the file.<\/p>\n
Step 3: After this run the command below:- <\/p>\n
mount -o remount \/dev\/vda2 and then run the command mount and you’ll see the output as below:-<\/p>\n
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\/dev\/vda2 on \/home\u00a0 type ext4 (rw,usrquota)
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Step 4: Now, run the command below to create the quota file:- <\/p>\n
\/sbin\/quotacheck -mufv \/home<\/p>\n
Step 5: On the quota for \/home partition<\/p>\n
\/sbin\/quotaon \/home<\/p>\n
That’s all that needs to be done. After this, you can use the command below to see the users inside the \/home directory.<\/p>\n
repquota \/home<\/p>\n
Similarly to increase\/decrease the quota for a particular user, you can use the commands as below:- <\/p>\n
edquota username<\/p>\n
e.g. edquota sachin
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Disk quotas for user sachin (uid 502):
\u00a0 Filesystem\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 blocks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 soft\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hard\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 inodes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 soft\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hard
\u00a0 \/dev\/vda2\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0
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That’s it.<\/p>\n
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