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Disk qouta

#1 User is offline   jarves 

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Posted 15 November 2004 - 03:45 PM

is there a disk qouta in linux????
if there is, how do i do it???
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Posted 17 November 2004 - 12:39 AM

greetings jarves

Yes, there is of course disk quota support in linux, as this is in fact a feature its Unix heritage. Disk quotas in Linux can be set in very fine granulated way and include all the fancy stuff like user and group-specific setting, as well as "hard/soft quota" or "grace periods". Setting up quotas requires 2 main steps ...

1: enabling quota support in the kernel
You'l find the checkbox for quotas under the "File systems"-section when you do a "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig"

2: installing the Quota-Tools
Which can be found here ...

Quota-Tools on Sourceforge

Compile and install these.

Those are the preliminaries ... now it's on to configuring disk quota. The complexity of this task depends on how specific you want the quotas to be. A good guide as to how to configure quotas can be found here ...

Quota-howto on redhat.com

hope this helps
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Posted 17 November 2004 - 06:27 PM

Check this out:

Devshed tutorial on Kernel, Cron and User admin Part 1

Pretty decent article, and page I may add. Check out the whole article, and part 2.

In fact, this has some decent articles on Linux admin.
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