A limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of system resource usage on modern operating systems.
Questions tagged [quota]
46 questions
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How to get a list of all owners of files in a directory
I am currently trying to fix my quota system. My problem is that I cannot determine if all files in a directory are owned by the same user. If possible is there a way to list the different owners of files in a directory (recursively).
e.g…
Jack7076
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Quota Exceeded but I only use 1.8 MB
Everytime I start up, I get an error message from Ubuntu One that says I've exceeded my quota, but I'm only using 1.8 MB and I thought you got 2 GB.
How do I fix this?
Mattie
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Quota format not supported in kernel
I'm trying to configure quota for my / mount on Ubuntu 11.10. I have added ,usrjquota=quota.user,grpjquota=quota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0 to it in fstab. Made mount -o remount / and quotacheck -avugm. But when I try to turn quota on quotaon -avug i get…
Chuguniy
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How to get the quota kernel modules on the AWS kernel?
I can't seem to be able to install the quota modules for the Ubuntu 16.04 AWS kernel. I've started the official cloud image (ami-e5d9439a from Ubuntu's Cloud Images site). Checking for the kernel modules shows that they're not…
Giles Thomas
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How can I set quota on folders?
I just set up a file server using Ubuntu 17.04 and my sister wants to use it. I want my sister to have a quota of 10GB of data. I am using samba to setup the file server.
How can I limit my sister's user to only 10 GB of space?
houseofkraft
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Why would the quota command not work at all?
I've installed and then updated quota, and now whenever I try and run the command, this is what happens:
superuser@superuser-MS-....:~$ quota -v
superuser@superuser-MS-....:~$ quota
superuser@superuser-MS-....:~$ quota -s
nothing. Does anyone have…
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Removing the filesystem quota on a partition
I want to install Dovecot on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and it recommends that we place the control files into a partition which will not be limited by the filesystem quota.
If I create an ext4 partition with 2 gigs, how do I remove the quota on that…
tabx
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Setting up group disk quotas
I am hoping to get some advice in setting up disk quotas. So, I know about:
Adding usrquota and grpquota on to /etc/fstab for the file systems that need to be managed.
Using edquota to assign disk quotas to users.
However, I need to do the last…
Ray
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How to set disk quota for multiple users within a single disk partition
I have a single disk partition (say /shared) shared by multiple users. It has a single file system (ext3). I want to put home directories for each of the user here and set their disk limit to 5 GB. Thus /share/home/user1 could have up to 5 GB and…
Lunar Mushrooms
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How can I set a quota in /etc/fstab?
I want to mount my /home in /etc/fstab for quota limits how do I do that?
My Ubuntu-Server fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as…
One Zero
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"Disk quota exceeded" on NFS: how can I see the quota?
I tried to run on NFS from the terminal: mkdir a. I get the error message mkdir: cannot create directory ‘a’: Disk quota exceeded.
How can I see the quota that was allowed to me?
I tried quota -v, however I get the error message (my username is…
Franck Dernoncourt
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How to smart limit the trash size/quota?
I am talking about the .Trash-1000 folders like.
Some times it's contents size reach like 18GB, and applications trying to write files will fail with no clear messages, because the disk space has ended.
I am looking for a way to force a trash…
Aquarius Power
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"Disk quota exceeded" error
In our lab, NFS server has been setup. This server has home directories of all users. Quota is enabled for all users.
root@server:/users/labuser# du -sh
69M .
root@lab-01:~# quota -su labuser
Disk quotas for user labuser (uid 52022):
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Shreyash
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Does btrfs support per user quota?
If I move the /home/... folders to a btrfs partition, can I still enable per user quota? That is, each user should be able to use a limited amount of storage.
12000
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Does purchased music count against my storage quotas?
For some reason I was under the impression that music purchased from the Ubuntu One store didn't count against my storage quota, but after I purchased a few albums I see that I haves less storage available.
Is purchased music supposed to count…
Brian Erickson
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