After the modification of your /etc/fstab
file, in order for quotas to be established on a file system, the root directory of the file system i.e. /home
in
our example must contain a file, owned by root, called quota.user
if you want to use user quota, quota.group
if you want to use group quota, or both if you want to use users and group quota.
Create the quota.user
and/or quota.group
files, as root go to the root of the partition you wish to enable quota i.e. /home
doing:
[root@deep] /# touch /home/quota.user [root@deep] /# touch /home/quota.group [root@deep] /# chmod 600 /home/quota.user [root@deep] /# chmod 600 /home/quota.group
The touch command will create new empty files under the home
directory named quota.user
and quota.group
. The chmod
command will set the mode of these files to be read-write only by the super-user root.
Both quota record files, quota.user
and quota.group
, should be owned by root, with read-write permission for root and none for anybody else.
Now we must initialize the files quota.user
and quota.group
in the root directory of the file system in order to not receive an error messages about quota
during the reboot of our server.
To initialize quota.user
and/or quota.group
files, use the following commands:
[root@deep] /# edquota -u wahib [root@deep] /# edquota -g wahib
The steps above are necessary just to initialize the files quota.user
and/or quota.group
; the command edquota -u will edit
the quota for the user wahib and -g will edit the quota for the group wahib. Note that you must edit an existing UID/GID on your system to initialize the files successfully.
After you have finished setting the appropriate options for your quota program in the /etc/fstab
file, and created and initialized the quota.users
,
and/or quota.group
files, you must reboot the system for the changes you have made in the /etc/fstab
file and/or the
files quota.user
, quota.group
to take effect.
To reboot your system, use the following command:
[root@deep] /# reboot
After your system has been rebooted you can assign quotas to users or groups of users on your system. This operation is performed with the edquota command. See man page edquota(8)