Create and Initialize Quota Information Files

quotacheck

The command used to create and initialize the files used to store quota information is quotacheck.

The quotacheck command creates and initializes the quota files for a file system. Quota files store information about disk usage and limits for users and groups. When a quota is enabled for a file system, the system checks the quota limits for users and groups whenever they try to create or modify files on that file system.

By default, quotacheck creates two quota files: aquota.user and aquota.group. The aquota.user file stores the quota information for individual users, and the aquota.group file stores the quota information for groups.

To use quotacheck, you need to specify the file system that you want to create quota files for. For example, to create and initialize the quota files for the /home file system, you can run the following command:

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quotacheck /home 

After running the quotacheck command, you also need to enable quotas for the file system using the quotaon command. For example, to enable quotas for the /home file system, you can run the following command:

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quotaon /home 

Once quotas are enabled, you can use the edquota command to set individual user or group quotas for the file system.