FreeBSD Quota Tutorial
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This tutorial shows you how to enable hard disk quota on a FreeBSD system.
Compile a New FreeBSD Kernel
First, you have to compile/install a kernel that supports quota (not enabled by default) (more information about compiling a new kernel can be found here: https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html).
cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
Edit the fileMYKERNEL and add the line
options QUOTA
Then run the following commands
/usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
cd ../compile/MYKERNEL
(For FreeBSD version prior to 5.0, use instead:
cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL )
make depend
make
make install
Enable Quota
Edit the file /etc/fstab and look for the entry, in which the directory /home is mentioned, e.g.
/dev/ad0s1d /home ufs rw 2 2
Add the words userquota and groupquota as follows:
/dev/ad0s1d /home ufs rw,userquota,groupquota 2 2
To enable quota at boot time you have to add the following lines to /etc/rc.conf:
quota_enable="YES"
check_quotas="YES"
Reboot the system:
shutdown -r now
After the reboot run the following commands:
quotacheck -a
quotaon -a
Finally, install the setquota -Tool:
pkg_add -r setquota
