Linux 101 : Adding disk quotas for users

We could enable quotas on a filesystem through the "/etc/fstab" file.

For example to enable quotas for our partition "/dev/sda3", we will use the below:

"/mnt" is the mountpoint of our partition "/dev/sda3".

To turn on the quota system for the users, we run the below command:

To be able to check the user quota and disk usage, usually listed in the "/etc/mtab" file, we use the below command:

We set the owner - Albert - and the group of the partition as below:

We could edit our quota for the user "Albert" using the below command:

It allows us to edit the quotas for user and groups.
We could also use the below command to check quotas and disk usage:

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