topic Re: Disk Quotas in Linux in Operating System - Linux

Disk Quotas in Linux

Caster Troy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:46:45 GMT

Hi Gurus,
Can I implement disk quotas while disk usage is already 80%
There are 36 users already using the server, I want to create 4 new groups and add 9 users to each group, then configure quotas for the groups.

rgds,
Troy

Re: Disk Quotas in Linux

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:28:23 GMT

Shalom Troy,

Always helpful to know which distribution of Linux we're talking about.

Here is how to do it on RHEL

http://books.google.com/books?id=wSKQz503C5MC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=quota+configuration+red+hat+linux&source=bl&ots=Gxttf40y6y&sig=sW6VQLPtRxS9_6cOqUupGvtd4mE&hl=en&ei=HGEBS7ziNc-lnQeVntyMCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=quota%20configuration%20red%20hat%20linux&f=false

What an awful looking link.

SEP

Re: Disk Quotas in Linux

Caster Troy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:04 GMT

Steve,

Can i configure quotas while there is data on the disk.

Troy

Re: Disk Quotas in Linux

Nuwan Alwis — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:01:54 GMT

Hi Troy,
Yes you can. once you are done users already exceeded the quota will get warnings and will not be able to write files to the share.

suggest you do a testing first on a dummy linux box or virtual machine if you are not comfortable with disk quotas.

Good Luck...!
NJ