8.7

Question 1

Prevents a user or group from using a disproportionate amount of disk space on a volume

Answer 1

Disk quota

Question 2

Use yum, zypper, or apt-get to install the quota package on the system where quota limits will be set.

Answer 2

Install quota package

Question 3

Edit the /etc/fstab file to add the mount options for the file system to enable quotas:

Answer 3

Edit mount options in /etc/fstab

Question 4

Create the aquota.user and aquota.group files in the directory where the partition is mounted.

Answer 4

create quota files

Question 5

Enable disk quotas and then generate a disk usage and quota report.

Answer 5

Enable quotas and view a quota report

Question 6

Edit a quota for the specified user or group.

Answer 6

edit quotas

Question 7

To create the aquota.user and aquota.group files in the file system (after placing the quota entries in /etc/fstab). Common options include:

Answer 7

quotacheck -mavug

Question 8

Enables quotas for the mounted file system as follows:

Answer 8

quotaon

Question 9

Disables quotas for the mounted file system.

Answer 9

quotaoff

Question 10

Displays a summary of the disc usage and quotas for the specified file systems, including the specific number of files and used space by user.

Answer 10

repquota

Question 11

Opens and edit a user’s quota, a group’s quota, or change the grace period:

Answer 11

edquota

Question 12

Displays the current user’s quota:

Answer 12

quota