Red Hat Linux 7 Unleashed

By William Ball

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Lead Authors
  • About the Contributing Authors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • Introduction
  • I. Red Hat Linux Installation and User Services
  • Chapter 1. Introduction to Red Hat Linux
  • Chapter 2. Installation of Your Red Hat System
  • Chapter 3. LILO and Other Boot Managers
  • Chapter 4. Configuring the X Window System, Version 11
  • Chapter 5. Window Managers
  • Chapter 6. Connecting to the Internet
  • Chapter 7. IRC, ICQ, and Chat Clients
  • Chapter 8. Using Multimedia and Graphics Clients
  • II. Configuring Services
  • Chapter 9. System Startup and Shutdown
  • Chapter 10. SMTP and Protocols
  • Chapter 11. FTP
  • Chapter 12. Apache Server
  • Chapter 13. Internet News
  • Chapter 14. Domain Name Service and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
  • Chapter 15. NIS: Network Information Service
  • Chapter 16. NFS: Network Filesystem
  • Chapter 17. Samba
  • III. System Administration and Management
  • Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices
  • Chapter 19. Printing with Linux
  • Chapter 20. TCP/IP Network Management
  • Chapter 21. Linux System Administration
    • Working as root
    • Performing System Maintenance
    • Managing Software with RPM
    • Using Gnome-RPM
    • Managing Users and Groups with linuxconf
    • Managing Users and Groups from the Command Line
    • Setting Disk Quotas with linuxconf
    • Creating Special Accounts with linuxconf
    • Analyzing Performance
    • Understanding Your Security Responsibilities
    • Getting Help
    • Summary
  • Chapter 22. Backup and Restore
  • Chapter 23. System Security
  • IV. Red Hat Development and Productivity
  • Chapter 24. Linux C/C++ Programming Tools
  • Chapter 25. Shell Scripting
  • Chapter 26. Automating Tasks
  • Chapter 27. Configuring and Building Kernels
  • Chapter 28. Emulators, Tools, and Window Clients
  • V. Appendixes
  • A. The Linux Documentation Project
  • B. Top Linux Commands and Utilities
  • C. The GNU General Public License
  • D. Red Hat Linux RPM Package Listings

Setting Disk Quotas with linuxconf

Most UNIX systems allow administrators to set up disk space limits for users so certain people don't hog all the space on the filesystem. This limit is known as a disk quota.

In order to set disk quotas you must first enable your filesystem for quotas. You can do this relatively easily with linuxconf.

To enable a filesystem for quotas:

1. Start linuxconf.
2. Click the Config tab.
3. Expand the tree browser under File Systems, Access Local Drive.

4. Click on Access Local Drive.

   You should now see a panel that looks like Figure 21.4.

   

   Figure 21.4 The linuxconf Access Local Drive panel.

5. Now double-click on the filesystem for which you would like to enable disk quotas.

6. Select the Options tab.

   You should see a panel that looks like Figure 21.5.

7. Choose User Quota Enabled and click Accept.

After you activate the changes, if you go back to User Accounts you will notice when you modify one of your users you can now set a disk space quota for them. You can also specify a default quota for all your users under File Systems, Set Quota Defaults (see Figure 21.6).

Figure 21.5 linuxconf Access Local Drive options.

Figure 21.6 linuxconf User Accounts Disk Quota options.

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