====== Quota ======

===== Quota for Disk Space Usage =====
To prevent users from filling up the hard disk - quotas are needed. It can be done on a user or group level. The group level will be chosen, although only specific users will have quotas. Here is how:

1. Edit /etc/fstab, and change<br>
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1<br>
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro,usrquota,grpquota 0       1<br>

2. Add quota support module<br>
 modprobe quota_v2 <nowiki>//</nowiki>may give a licence warning. Warnings are logged to /var/log/dmesg
 echo 'quota_v2' >> /etc/modules

3. Put the quota scripts in a suitable place:
 touch /home/aquota.user
 touch /home/aquota.group
 chmod 600 /home/aquota.user /home/aquota.group

4. Now install quota via apt:
 apt-get install quota quotatool

5. REBOOT <nowiki>//</nowiki>Quota should be working afterwards. Type quota - to see a users quota

6. To set the soft limits to 200Mb and the hard limit to 250Mb for a user called testuser you would run:
 quotatool -u testuser -bq 200M -l '250 Mb' /dev/sda1

The user will be emailed daily if they have exceeded their soft limit. The cronjob for this is in /etc/cron.daily

Root can see who is using what by running:
 repquota /dev/sda1


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As ever - excellent help from debian administration at:<br>
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/47

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/Webmin.htm