Re: quota question (repost)

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:57:41AM +0100, Antonio Galea wrote:
> Apparently the answer I've posted yesterday got lost... or maybe I've missed
> it somehow. So here it is again, apologies if you receive it twice.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:38 +0100 (CET)
> From: Antonio Galea <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: quota question
> 
> Steps to follow for enabling quota:
> 
> 1. create the data files:
> 
> touch /var/aquota.user
> touch /var/aquota.group
> 
> 2. add the option 'quota' to /var in /etc/fstab, for instance change
> 
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
> 
> to
> 
> LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults,quota  1 2
> 
> 3. remount the filesystem and scan it for quota usage:
> 
> mount -o remount /var
> quotacheck -vug /var
> 
> 4. enable quota:
> 
> quotaon /var
> 
> At boot, the system runs quotacheck and quotaon on every partition marked with
> the quota option in /etc/fstab/.
> 
> To report about quota usage, use 'repquota'; to actually set the limits, use
> 'setquota'; to turn off quota, 'quotaoff'.
> 
> That's all there is to it... RAID makes no difference at all.
> 
You left out a few steps concerning setting quotas and setting grace period.
See man edquota.
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