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Set up disk quotas in ubuntu Posted March 19, 2008 Add /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Remount the filesystem to enable quotas. sudo mount -o remount,usrquota / Create the quota file ("-m" forces quotacheck to do this while the filesystem is mounted read/write, so you don't have to disrupt any services in order to do this step). sudo quotacheck -F vfsv0 -c -a -v -m quotacheck will say something like this. quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] done quotacheck: Cannot stat old user quota file: No such file or directory quotacheck: Old group file not found. Usage will not be substracted. quotacheck: Checked 19055 directories and 136735 files quotacheck: Old file not found. Turn on quota checking. sudo quotaon -a Edit a user's quota. sudo edquota username |