A company i’m working for asked me to write a php script which is autoinstalling software like wordpress, gallery2, etc. I nearly finished that script, the only thing which is still missing is the “free-space” check. This is because it’s not simply just checking for the free space, in fact i have to check for quotas, if they exist, too. However, that was the reason why i played around with quotas.

First of all i enabled quota support in the Kernel. Then i added “usrquota,grpquota” to the options in /etc/fstab. After that i created the files quota.user and quota.group on / (which is the device i’m trying to work with quota on) and rebooted (-o remount was not working). Now back online i issued “quotacheck -avug” to the box and got:
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