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How do I configure disk quotas on Fedora Linux? Do I need to patch a kernel (as suggested by some tutorial?

Assuming that /home is created and mounted on separate partition such as /dev/sda2

First edit your /etc/fstab file and enable disk quota
Make sure it look like as follows
Save and close file. Now remount file system

Now create /home/aquota.user file and set permission
Initialize disk quota
Setup disk quota for user called vivek, 50 MB:
You need to setup soft and hard limit let us say soft is 49 MB and hard is 50 Mb
Disk quotas for user vivek (uid 1001):
You need to specify unit in KB. Generally
1000 = 1 MB so 50MB = 51000 (it is 1024 actually)

Save and close the file. Now user vivek cannot exceed his disk quota.

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nixcraft. Excellent job

On a related note you can use 3rd party tool such as webmin web-based administration toolkit for the same. http://www.webmin.com/

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