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I want to set home directory limit of 10GB for all users in Ubuntu. Can anyone tell me how could I do that?

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Here is a tutorial for setting up user and group quotas on Linux.

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For clarification, do you want your home directory in total to have a 10GB limit? Or do you require each user individually to have a 10G limit for their respective home directories?

Some how-to's which should help you with both scenarios:

Debian, quick rundown: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-set-up-journaled-quota-on-debian-lenny

Centos based, but thorough clear and easy to follow www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-disk-quotas.html

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I want to set a 10GB limit for individual user in Ubuntu. – Charly Jan 26 '10 at 13:46
Charly, The tutorials/docs I listed are what you are looking to follow. To sum up the process to set user quotas: 1. In your /etc/fstab, add "usrquota,grpquota" to the options for the partition you are looking to enable quota on. 2. Create the quota files by: # touch /aquota.user && touch /aquota.group && chmod 600 /aquota.* 3. Remount your file system with new options: # mount -o remount / (partition modified in fstab) 4. Turn on quotas # quotaon -av 5. Edit individual quotas with the 'edquota' command. You will be editing the 'soft' and 'hard' limits ( 10240000 will be 10gb) – Joe Jan 26 '10 at 22:46
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