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Old 11-21-2017
Set hard block limit for user using quota

hi all,

i have installed quota on my centos 7 machine and its what im after (setting size limit on users, so they cant fill the hard drive)

i want to now make this part of my create user script for my sftp server so i want to do a echo and a read command so i capture the limit they enter and it puts the limit in the 4th column under hard

what i do is run the command below

Code:
edquota -u username


once its opened up the below table i just input the required hard blocks ie 900000



Code:
Disk quotas for user robw (uid 1000):
  Filesystem                   blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft     hard
  /dev/sdb1                         8          0          0          2        0        0

is this easy to do please

many thanks,

rob

---------- Post updated at 09:05 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:39 AM ----------

sorted it by running this command -

Code:
setquota -u robw 0 52428800 0 0 -a /dev/sdb1

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RQUOTAD(8)						      System Manager's Manual							RQUOTAD(8)

NAME
quota_nld - quota netlink message daemon SYNOPSIS
quota_nld [[ -D | -C ][ -F ][ -b ]] DESCRIPTION
quota_nld listens on netlink socket and processes received quota warnings. By default quota_nld forwards warning messages to both the sys- tem's DBUS (so that the desktop manager can display a dialog) and the last-accessed terminal of the user to whom each warning is directed. Either of these destinations can be disabled with the -D and -C options, respectively. In the case of the user's terminal, quota messages about falling below the hard and soft limits are not sent unless the -b option is speci- fied. In the case of the DBUS, all quota messages are sent. Note, that you have to enable the kernel support for sending quota messages over netlink (in Filesystems->Quota menu). OPTIONS
-V, --version Show version of quota tools and exit. -h, --help Show a usage message and exit. -D, --no-dbus Do not forward quota warnings to DBUS. -C, --no-console Do not print quota warnings to the user's last-accessed terminal. -b, --print-below If quota warnings are printed to users' terminals, include messages about falling below their hard and soft limits. -F, --foreground Run daemon in foreground (may be useful for debugging purposes). SEE ALSO
quota(1), netlink(7), dbus.freedesktop.org RQUOTAD(8)
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