RHEL User Quotas

Setting up User Quota’s on RHEL

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1. Add usrquota to your filesystem.
> vi /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 / ext3 usrquota 0 0

2. Remount the filesystem.
> mount -o remount / (-o remount is as / is your active partition)

3. Run Quota Check on the filesystem.
> qutacheck / -m (-m is due to / being mounted and readonly)

4. Enable user quota on filesystem.
> quotaon /

5. Add quotas for user using the Quota Editor.
> edquota username