How do I enable disk quotas in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • How do I enable disk quotas in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
  • How do I set disk usage quotas per user ?
  • How do I set a quota for each user so they cannot exceed a certain number of megabytes in their home directory?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (ALL)
  • ext3/ext4 filesystems
  • File system quotas

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