Disk quota

• Disk quota is used to control how much disk space a

particular user can access.
• Quota tools:
• quotacheck
• quotaon
• quotaoff
• edquota
• repquota
•
 Quota tools
• Quotacheck:
• It scans the file system for the current disk usage and update
the aquota.user file.
• Quotaon:
• It turns on the quota.
• Quotaoff
• It turns off the quota.
• Edquota:
• It is used to set disk quotas for a user.
• Repquota:
• It displays summary of disk quotas and the quota usage .
•
 Implementing quota
• To implement disk quota for an user, set the user quota for

the home directory by replacing its “defaults” entry with

“usrquota” in fstab file.

• The following slides will guide you how to implement disk

quota for particular user.

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Open the
fstab file.
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Replace this
defaults as
usrquota.
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Now usrquota is
assigned to the
/home directory.
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Here you can see that the
Remount the /home
user quota is not updated for
directory to update.
the /home directory.

Now you can see the user

quota got assigned to
/home directory
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Create quota database file

named aquota.user to hold
the quota information for all
It checks the validity
users. of
quota database of the
/home directory.
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Turn on the quota.

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Let us set disk

quota for the user
jack.
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To assign the
quota for the user
jack.
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This soft The

Blocks represents limitmaximum memory space for a
will just issue
To setThis
user. softwill
limitdeny
for the user to
To set hard disk
limit a warning
forspace number
in KB. if he exceeds soft
Inode represents of limit. theifinode
access, .
he exceeds the quota
inode.
files and directories can be limit.
accessed by the user.
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Here we set soft limit

as 40 KBwe
Here memory
set hard limit
Here we set
space
ashard
50 .KB
limit as 20 Here we set soft
memory
inodes .so that user can. access
space limit as 15 inodes .
only max of 20 inodes.
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It displays summary
of disk usage.

User jack has a hard limit(block

User jack has a hard limit (file limits)
limits) of 50KB and soft limit of 40
of 20 inodes and soft limit of 15
KB, he already used 10KB. inodes , he already used 10 inodes.
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User jack created five files without any

warnings. But when he create sixth file a
warning message is displayed. This indicates
the user had exceeded the soft limit.
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Now, when the jack attempt to create

more than ten files i.e., the eleventh
file then write failed message occurs.
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Here jack use dd command to

create a file named ‘1’ of 30KB.

Since the user exceeds the soft

limits a warning messages is
occurred.
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Here jack attempt to create a file

named ‘2’ of 10KB . But since, he
has exceeded hard limit write
failed error occurred.
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Here we can notice that the jack

had used all this quota. So he is
restricted to create files.