[LUNI] newbie question on disk quotas for ubuntu

[Richard Johnson]

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 10:37, sqrfolkdnc at comcast.net wrote:
> I'm trying to convert from an evil empire OS to linux (Ubuntu 6.06).
>
> Copying stuff over, and I got disk full.  df -k says there is plenty of
> room: cts at ubuntu:~$ df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             18642960   3597936  14097996  21% /
> varrun                  306716        80    306636   1% /var/run
> varlock                 306716         4    306712   1% /var/lock
> udev                    306716       144    306572   1% /dev
> devshm                  306716         0    306716   0% /dev/shm
> lrm                     306716     18856    287860   7%
> /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-386/volatile
>
> I looked for "disk quota" on linux.org, was pointed to a "quota" command,
> but it is not found: carey at ctsubuntu:~$ su -
> Password:
> root at ubuntu:~# man quota
> No manual entry for quota
> root at ubuntu:~# quota
> -su: quota: command not found
> root at ubuntu:~#
>
> BTW, why does the prompt say "-su" before the error message for quota, but
> not for the failure of the man command? --
> --Carey Schug

Command line way:
sudo apt-get install quota

Graphical way:
"System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager", Type in your user 
password, scroll down until you see "quota", right click on it and 
select "Mark for Installation". Then go to the top, and select the "Apply" 
button. Enjoy!

-- 
.:Richard Johnson
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