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1. Create a partition on the hard disk

Steps to create a partition:

• fdisk /dev/hda (Device ID may be anything like sda, sdb, etc)
• n (for new partition)
• Enter the partition Number
• t (for the type of partition)
• Enter the type of partition Number
• w (write)
• partprobe (To update the kernel)
• mkdir /quota ( Create folder on OS to mount the partition)
• mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda(x)
• mount /dev/had(x) /quota
• chmod 755 /quota

2. For user quota only, edit the /etc/fstab file like  /dev/hda(x) /quota ext3 defaults,usrquota 0 0

3. For user & group quota both, edit /etc/fstab file like /dev/hda(x) /quota ext3             defaults,usrquota,grpquota 0 0

4. Remount /quota partition, mount -o remount /quota

5. Enable quota for user quota only quotacheck -c /quota

6. For user & group quota both, quotacheck -cug /quota

7. To confirm quota is enabled, cd /quota (check the file aquota.user)

8. To implement user limitations, edquota -u username

9. To enable group limitations, edquota -g groupname

10. Apply soft & hard limits in KB or on no. of files or Volume based quota.

11. Give the command quotaon /quota to enable the limitations of quota.