This document discusses managing disk quotas in Linux. It provides an overview of key commands used to set up, edit, check, generate reports on, and manage disk quotas, including quota, edquota, repquota, quotaon, and quotaoff. It describes how these commands work and their various options. The goal of disk quotas is to limit disk usage on a per-user or per-group basis to control storage consumption.
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Manage disk quotas
quota utility is used to view information about disk usage and user quotas.
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Quota information can be displayed for all file systems listed in /etc/fstab:
this file contains info regarding whether quotas can be used on various file
systems.
Files used to manage quotas are located in file system root:
- quota.user for user accounts
- quota.group for group quotas.
Files must be created by superuser and with rw permissions only for superuser
These files are not manually edited when working with quotas.
Quotas are specified at the partition level, which enables control which partitions use quotas
and to set these quotas independently of partition.