Disk Quotas in Linux

[Caster Troy]

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

[Steven E. Protter]

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

[Caster Troy]

Steve,

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

Troy

[Nuwan Alwis]

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