DiskQouta

[stozka]

I have just get an ip and server login.
I noticed that disk has 3 partitions. Boot,swap and /. From my experience, i I want to use quota on /home, for example I need to have a dedicated partition for this stuff. I'm I missing something or will I have to do repartitioning.

[knightfoo]

Originally posted by stozka
I have just get an ip and server login.
I noticed that disk has 3 partitions. Boot,swap and /. From my experience, i I want to use quota on /home, for example I need to have a dedicated partition for this stuff. I'm I missing something or will I have to do repartitioning.

Quotas are set on a per-filesystem basis, so yes, you would need a seperate partition in order to do quotas for just /home. However, it does no harm to enable quotas on the / filesystem and set your quotas for users there. This might actually be better than quotas on just /home, because putting quotas on / would prevent users from filling up /tmp to try to go over their quota limit. :) That said, I would not recommend trying to repartition your server while it is online .. I've seen 3 people try this in the last week and every one of them need an OS reload at the end.

-knightfoo