Managing Filesystem Quotas

CompTIA Linux + Domain:

Domain 1.0: Hardware and System Configuration

CompTIA Linux + Objective:

Objective 1.4: Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment. 
 

Overview

This lab provides guidance on performing Managing Filesystem Quotas of the Linux+. By performing this lab, students will learn how to create and implement filesystem quotas on a Linux system.

outcomes:

In this lab, you will learn to:

  1. Prepare a file system for quotas.
  2. Implement file system quotas.
  3. Report on file system quotas.
Courses

Key terms and descriptions

File System Quota
One of the features of Linux allows the system administrator to set a maximum amount of disk space that a user or group can use which is called a file system quota.
fstab
In Linux, the /etc/fstab file controls the file systems that are mounted at boot time for the system.