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allocate user quota using perl script

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I'm a student who is studying system administration. I need to write a perl script to allocate disk quota to users. I'm using ubuntu and When I try to run edquota command in command line it says that Can't find file system with quota. pls help me. I tried to edit fstab. but didn't work.

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Check out the following perl module - Quota - "Perl interface to file system quotas"

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