Mini Quota HowTo

  1. Edit file /etc/fstab to add qualifier "grpquota" (for groups) to the partition in which you want to add quota support. For example here I've added both types to my / (root) partition. Make sure there are NO SPACES after "defaults" and up to your qualifiers that you add.

    LABEL=/       /       ext3     defaults,grpquota      1 1
     
  2. Remount the the partition that you added you added quotas to (in this instance /)

    mount -o remount /
     
  3. Create file aquota.group on the root of the partition that you added quota support to (in this case /). Following the above example:

    touch /aquota.group
     
  4. Run quotacheck

    quotacheck -vgam
     
  5. Turn quota on

    quotaon -av