Quota for an user

Anibal · 06-01-2004, 08:14 AM

Hi,
i'm new to this quota thing, i configured everything to use quota but what will be the value if a want to give 25 MB disk quota on a disk for an user ?

edquota -u username

Disk quotas for user curtones (uid 1006):
Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard
/dev/hda1 1268 0 0 173 0 0

i don't get this blocks thing & inodes.. sorry i know is a shame :-(

eric.r.turner · 06-01-2004, 10:33 AM

According to the Quota mini HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html , one block is one kilobyte (1024 bytes). So, 25 MB * 1024 KB/MB = 25600 KB = 25600 blocks.

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that each file and directory uses an inode, so the inode limit restricts the number of files and directories a user can own.

Anibal · 06-01-2004, 10:42 AM

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Originally posted by eric.r.turner
According to the Quota mini HOWTO at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html , one block is one kilobyte (1024 bytes). So, 25 MB * 1024 KB/MB = 25600 KB = 25600 blocks.

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) that each file and directory uses an inode, so the inode limit restricts the number of files and directories a user can own.

Ok got that.. but what i don't get is, what do this mean ?

Disk quotas for user curtones (uid 1006):
Filesystem blocks soft hard inodes soft hard
/dev/hda1 1268 0 0 173 0 0

blocks 1268
inodes 173

Wht should the soft & the hard be ?

Looking_Lost · 06-01-2004, 12:37 PM

Going by the doc's that I've if soft and hard limits are set to zero the user has unlimited disk use, so I guess you have to set them.

The soft limit is a limit that once the user goes over it they have a grace period of a few days ,or whatever length that you can set, to get their disk usage back under the soft limit else the soft limit becomes a hard lmit. The user is then unable to write to the disk.

eric.r.turner · 06-02-2004, 12:14 AM

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Originally posted by Anibal
Ok got that.. but what i don't get is, what do this mean ?

Read the mini HOWTO (yes, all of it.) What it shows for blocks and inodes are current usage. The hard and soft limits at zero mean unlimited.