How To Install quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. quota.x86_64 is System administration tools for monitoring users’ disk usage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is quota.x86_64

The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and or group disk usage per file system.

We can use yum to install quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota.x86_64.

Install quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install quota.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quota.x86_64

How To Uninstall quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the quota.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove quota.x86_64

quota.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/sysconfig/rpc-rquotad
/usr/bin/quota
/usr/bin/quotasync
/usr/lib/systemd/system/nfs-rquotad.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpc-rquotad.service
/usr/sbin/convertquota
/usr/sbin/edquota
/usr/sbin/quot
/usr/sbin/quotacheck
/usr/sbin/quotaoff
/usr/sbin/quotaon
/usr/sbin/quotastats
/usr/sbin/repquota
/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad
/usr/sbin/setquota
/usr/sbin/xqmstats
/usr/share/doc/quota-4.01
/usr/share/doc/quota-4.01/Changelog
/usr/share/man/man1/quota.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/quotasync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/convertquota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/edquota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/quot.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/quotacheck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/quotaoff.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/quotaon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/quotastats.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/repquota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rpc.rquotad.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/setquota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xqmstats.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.