Linux 101 : User's quota

To limit the consumption of disk space, we could assign different values to the below elements:

Remark:

Soft limits issue only a warning as opposed to the hard limits that result in an error when exceeded.

We start by enabling quotas on the directory in the "/etc/fstab" file:

We then re-mount our filesystem so that the changes get taken into account:

We create the files needed by the "backup" directory using the below command, so that the quotas could be applied to it:

We enable quota on the filesystem as follows:

We then limit the use of the filesystem by the user "Albert" for example:

Inside the file, we specify the following:

We could use the below command to check the quotas and the usage of the "backup" directory for each user, including the user "Albert":

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