Quota on RHEL/CentOS

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Here are the steps to implementing quotas on a RedHat based system :

We will enable quotas on /home on the /dev/hda3 partition.

Create user : useradd user1 passwd user1

Edit /etc/fstab : From : /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 To : /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2

Remount the disk (make sure it’s not in use) : mount -o remount /home

Check if usrquota and grpquota are enabled : mount | grep /home

Create quota files : quotacheck -cvug /home

This creates /home/aquota.user and /home/aquota.group

Check quota : quotacheck -avug

Enable quota for user1 : edquota user1 Edit soft and hard limits (1000 = 1 MB) or inode values.

Check the quota for user1 : quota user1

Enable quota : quotaon -avug

In addition :

Through a cron, run everynight when the filesystem is not used : quotaoff -avug && quotacheck -avug && quotaon --avug

Get quota stats : repquota -a

**Warn users when their quota has been reached : ** warnquota

For some reason I had to manually edit /etc/quottab for warnquota to work



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