Linux Disk Quota Implementation
Linux User Disk Quota Implementation What is disk quota? Ans : Disk quota is restricting the disk-space usage to the users . We have to remember one thing when we are dealing with disk quota i.e. Disk Quota can be applied only on disks/partitions not on files and folders . how we can implement disk quota? Disk quota can be implemented in two ways a. On INODE b. On BLOCK What is an INODE? Ans : In Linux every object is consider as file , every file will be having an inode number associated and this is very much easy for computer to recognize where the file is located. Inode stands for Index Node , and is the focus of all file activities in the UNIX file-system. Each file has one inode that defines the file’s type (regular, directory, device etc), the location on disk, The size of the file, Access permissions, Access times. Note ...