Virtual Private Server User Guide

User and Group Management

You can verify that the user quota has been added by listing all users with the 

quotactl command:

> quotactl  l

UID 

Username 

Disk Space Used (B) 

Disk Quota (K) 

1000 

peony108 

535 

   27648 

1001 

test 

 9 

   25600 

1002 

test2 

 9 

   None 

1003 

rusty 

 135 

   25600 

65534 

nobody 184 

   None 

Changing User Quotas

The quotactl command allows you to change a user's quota.

Example 1: using quotactl to change an account's quota

To update a user quota, use the quotactl command as shown below: 

> quotactl  s  u test2  bh 50M

This command would set the quota for the test2 user to 50MB. 

Listing User Quotas

You can list all user quotas on your VPS server by issuing the quotactl command, 

as shown below:

> quotactl  l

UID 

Username 

Disk Space Used (B) 

Disk Quota (K) 

1000 

peony108 

535 

   27648 

1001 

test 

 9 

   25600 

1002 

test2 

 9 

   None 

1003 

rusty 

 135 

   25600 

65534 

nobody 184 

   None 

The above example displays all quotas for each user on your system.

In addition to listing normal user quotas, you can list all user quotas (including 

system users) by adding the  a option to the vlistuser command, as follows:

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