A usenet poster suggeted the following procedure to manage disk space quotas for your users:

1. Log in as root
2. cd to the base directory for the partition you want the quotas on (you must do this on each partition you want the quotas applied to)
3. use touch command to create files "quota.user" "quota.group"
4. edit the file /etc/fstab (remember to make a backup copy of it). For example:

      /dev/hda1 /home ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 3
      ( replace hda1 above with your partitions)
   

5. reboot (or umount and mount the disk)
6. quotacheck -c /home
7. use edquota -u user (for a user) or edquota -u group (for a group)
8. quotaon /home

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