Howto assign disk space quota

[z_haseeb]

i am using linux redHat 5 and fedora9

How can assgin disk space quota to particular user suppose i have 4 users
user1
user2
user3
user4

All four users have a each folder
/data/folder1
/data/folder2
/data/folder3
/data/folder4

i want to assign space limit/restriction of 100MB on each on folder.

Thanks in Advance

[devils casper]

Using userquota type will be fine in your case. First of all, in /etc/fstab file, add usrquota option for the partition where you want to enforce it.
Let say, you want to set quota in /dev/sda3 partition.

/dev/sda3    /data      ext3    defaults,usrquota   0   0

Remount partition and execute mount command to check if usrquota has been enabled for /dev/sda3.
Enable quota db now

quotacheck -c /data

Add quota limit for each user now.
For 100MB limit, set 70MB as soft quota ( User will receive warning on crossing soft quota limit ). Set 30MB as Hard quota (User will be restricted on crossing this limit).

edquota user_id

Execute this to check if quota has been set correctly for each User.

repquota /data

[z_haseeb]

Thanks for your kind reply

But where you mentioned the 70MB or 30MB ????SO the quota will enforced.

[cream_ontop]

when u excite
# edqutoa user1
block soft hard indoes soft hard
60000 90000

soft for give warning
hard for max limit

ps: recommend to use

# quotacheck -cmgu /data
# quotaon /data

cream_ontop