December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
48h 24m
English
Disk quotas are a way to restrict the usage of disk space either by user or by groups. Although rarely—if ever—used on a local or standalone workstation, quotas are definitely a way of life at the enterprise level of computing. Usage limits on disk space not only conserve resources, but also provide a measure of operational safety by limiting the amount of disk space any user can consume.
Disk quotas are more fully covered in Chapter 11, “Managing Users.”
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