Assigning Quotas Per User - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

• a — Check all quota-enabled, locally-mounted file systems
• v — Display verbose status information as the quota check proceeds
• u — Check user disk quota information
• g — Check group disk quota information
After quotacheck has finished running, the quota files corresponding to the enabled quotas (user
and/or group) are populated with data for each quota-enabled locally-mounted file system such as /
home.

7.1.4. Assigning Quotas per User

The last step is assigning the disk quotas with the edquota command.
To configure the quota for a user, as root in a shell prompt, execute the command:
edquota username
Perform this step for each user who needs a quota. For example, if a quota is enabled in /etc/fstab
for the /home partition (/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 in the example below) and the command
edquota testuser is executed, the following is shown in the editor configured as the default for the
system:
Disk quotas for user testuser (uid 501):
Filesystem
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02
Note
The text editor defined by the EDITOR environment variable is used by edquota. To
change the editor, set the EDITOR environment variable in your ~/.bash_profile file to
the full path of the editor of your choice.
The first column is the name of the file system that has a quota enabled for it. The second column
shows how many blocks the user is currently using. The next two columns are used to set soft and
hard block limits for the user on the file system. The inodes column shows how many inodes the user
is currently using. The last two columns are used to set the soft and hard inode limits for the user on
the file system.
The hard block limit is the absolute maximum amount of disk space that a user or group can use.
Once this limit is reached, no further disk space can be used.
The soft block limit defines the maximum amount of disk space that can be used. However, unlike the
hard limit, the soft limit can be exceeded for a certain amount of time. That time is known as the grace
period. The grace period can be expressed in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months.
If any of the values are set to 0, that limit is not set. In the text editor, change the desired limits. For
example:
blocks soft hard
440436 0
Assigning Quotas per User
inodes soft
0 37418 0
hard
0
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