How To Install quota on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota in Fedora 36. quota is System administration tools for monitoring users’ disk usage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota on Fedora 36.

What is quota

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

We can use yum or dnf to install quota on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install quota.

Install quota on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install quota

Install quota on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install quota

How To Uninstall quota on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove quota

quota Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/quota
/usr/bin/quotasync
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/b501904a2741a40b3ce215333b307a869a8705
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/5ba9e9427edaf57a66dd0be1edf99f8bc9ed34
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/f47aa9c5ee3eee1c368fdb2a469b2c684f8fe1
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/a47d1db491ab616c94489e3080d6ec544a2de1
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/897e49045cf2469d774e881f1136a34b9a4f7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/75
/usr/lib/.build-id/75/a53f1b1e823191f421bbfeab6add031daaf8f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/678e45a1a88721131c6c1171a9a22b33a547ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/3bc3c84aedb1b187a6fdfdc454b9a0fc95bdc5
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/b152f3f74128031dcbc81c27678e8ee8d3fea8
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/82fc9ece1f1d488650497f6958674156cccd8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/53fbb112a9d8486cea3a5905c001f001d72150
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/1ca9da252fe3abe06e745e794dfb27f395147a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/5182a3cce1e093d8369faae0faec20f81003a6
/usr/sbin/convertquota
/usr/sbin/edquota
/usr/sbin/quotacheck
/usr/sbin/quotaoff
/usr/sbin/quotaon
/usr/sbin/quotastats
/usr/sbin/repquota
/usr/sbin/setquota
/usr/sbin/xqmstats
/usr/share/doc/quota
/usr/share/doc/quota/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/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/setquota.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/xqmstats.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install quota on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).