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Quota on a directory in RHEL

How can i put quota on a directory in Linux ( /data ) my file systems are not mounted with quota option and i cannot reboot the system also. I read somewhere to do this via linux virtual file system .. just wanted to have
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You cannot directly put a quota on a directory. The workaround is to create a filesystem, put a quota on the filesystem and mount that filesystem on the directory.

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