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Set up disk quotas in ubuntu
Posted March 19, 2008

Add usrquota to mount options in /etc/fstab.

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,usrquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1

Remount the filesystem to enable quotas.

sudo mount -o remount,usrquota /

Create the quota file ("-m" forces quotacheck to do this while the filesystem is mounted read/write, so you don't have to disrupt any services in order to do this step).

sudo quotacheck -F vfsv0 -c -a -v -m

quotacheck will say something like this.

quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda1 [/] done
quotacheck: Cannot stat old user quota file: No such file or directory
quotacheck: Old group file not found. Usage will not be substracted.
quotacheck: Checked 19055 directories and 136735 files
quotacheck: Old file not found.

Turn on quota checking.

sudo quotaon -a

Edit a user's quota.

sudo edquota username