Re: tlug: quotas

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 02:42:54PM +0900, Scott Stone wrote:
> OK, I give up - how do you define and enable a quota under Linux?  Yes, I
> have quota support enabled in the kernel already.  Using edquota, quotaon,
> even with a C program calling quotactl directly, I can't seem to get the
> system to recognize the quotas..

There is a quota Mini-HOWTO in the LDP.

Make sure root has created 0 length quota.user (and/or quota.group),
and that the partitions are being mounted with options that include
usrquota (and/or grpquota).  edquota a typical user's quota, and then
use edquota -p typical_user user2 user3 user4 to replicate his quota.
(Make sure quotachk and quotaon are being run in your startup scripts...
but that seems "normal" for recent distributions.)  'repquota -a' will
show current quotas for all users.

Jim

(tlug.pht.co.jp is available as an example. :-)

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