Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

Do you want this user s home directory deleted? [no]: 

yes

Are you sure? [no]: 

yes

Deleting

When you choose to delete a user's home directory, all e mail and account 

preferences for that user will be permanently removed. For this reason, you 

should be absolutely sure that you want to delete a user's home directory before 

doing so.

Basic User Quota Management

User account quotas can be managed either through command line tools or by 

using the VAdmin Web interface. This chapter focuses on quota administration 

from the command line. See the VAdmin User Guide for more information on 

performing Web based quota administration.

From the command line, there is one super command that is used to manage user 

account quotas on your server:

Command: 

Description: 

quotactl 

Adds/Modifies/Deletes quotas for your users 

This command is explained further in the following sections.

Adding User Account Quotas

You can create user account quotas by using the quotactl command.  

Example: Adding a user quota

In the following transcript, we create a user account quota for a user named 

"rusty" with a quota of 25MB. 

> quotactl  s  u rusty  bh 25M

Setting quota for rusty to 25MO

UID 

Username 

Disk Space Used (B) 

Disk Quota (K) 

1003 

rusty 

 135 

   25600 

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