Artur Krzywanski

There is a small how to here however it describes how to install on / partition. Here are clear instructions for /home.

Login as root, do not use sudo, you will not be able to unmount /home partition if you use sudo.

Install quota

Change mount options

And use following options for /home partition:

errors=remount-ro,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0

Here is example /etc/fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /home ext3 errors=remount-ro,usrjquota=aquota.user,grpjquota=aquota.group,jqfmt=vfsv0 0 2
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Create user and group file

Remount /home

Run following commands

Quota is now enabled on your server

To add limits for user

In this example soft limit is 1.5GB and hard limit is 2GB

Now when user exceeds his limits this is what will happen: