Creating Disk Quotas in Linux

摘要

Linux provides a very simple way to create and manage disk quotas. You can do this either on per-user or on per-group basis. We explain how to do this. Quota is the amount of disk space that one is allowed to use. Since in an enterprise environment there are many users and limited space, administrators have to restrict the amount of space that any one user is allowed to use. The quota management system keeps users from carelessly using huge amounts of disk space. In this article we tell you how to create disk quotas in Linux.