Enabling Quotas in Linux

Edit your fstab entry to something like

/dev/hda1  /home  ext3  defaults,usrquota  1 2

• umount and mount the disk read-only
• run quotacheck -c /home to create the quota file in the root directory of the disk
• umount and mount the disk read-write
• run quotaon /home to turn on the quota checking
• use edquota or setquota to set individual quotas