Quota: any experiences?

[Jerre]

I'm thinking of installing quota on my VPS, so that I can host a few domains for friends, but I can prevent them from cluttering my VPS with mp3s and such BS

I saw there was an apt package that contains a webmin interface for quota.

Does anybody have any experience with installing this?

Jerre

[retep]

Here are my 'quota notes'. They may be of some help:

You need to have a usrquota and/or grpquota option on the file system on which you wish to use quotas. e.g. in /etc/fstab you would have something like:

/dev/ubd/1 / ext3 defaults,noatime,usrquota,grpquota 1 0

# reload the mount points with the quota settings enabled
mount -o remount /

#install quota (if not there already)
apt-get install quota

# will set up the quota files
quotacheck -acguvm


# -m is needed, else you may get:
# quotacheck: Cannot remount filesystem mounted on / read-only so counted values might not be right.
# Please stop all programs writing to filesystem or use -m flag to force checking.

# -c is needed, else you may get a
quotacheck: Can't find filesystem to check or filesystem not mounted with quota
edquota: Quota file not found or has wrong format.
quota: Quota file not found or has wrong format.

repquota -a # will show who is using what

To assign a quota to a user (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota-4.html):

edquota -u ausername

[themicah]

I got quotas to work by following the above directions. The only thing that wasn't clear to me on the first read (I'm a bit of a novice) was this part:

e.g. in /etc/fstab you would have something like:

/dev/ubd/1 / ext3 defaults,noatime,usrquota,grpquota 1 0

I eventually figured out that for my VPS this meant adding the usrquota,grpquota parameters to the first line in my fstab file (which mounts /dev/sda1, not /dev/ubd/1 like in the example above).

This may be obvious to experienced users, but in case there are other novices out there I thought I'd add...