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Niyaz
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disk space allocation

hi
Can anyone tell me how to allocate disk space for a user account .
Reyaz
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Animesh Chakraborty
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Re: disk space allocation

Hi ,
Use disk quota to to set the limit of disk usage for a user.
#man quota

Hope this helps
Animesh
Did you take a backup?
Stefan Farrelly
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Re: disk space allocation


You will need to enable quotas (disk) first. See man 5 quota
for details on what needs to be setup before you can use them.
Then you use the edquota and quota commands to adminster sizes for particular users (see manpage for edquote and 1M quota).
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