Init 1 (to disable /home and edit it perfectly) 1) add "usrquota,grpquota" to "/etc/fstab" 2) remount filesystem 3) quotacheck mount -o remount /home [root@bigboy tmp]# touch /home/aquota.user [root@bigboy tmp]# chmod 600 /home/aquota.user [root@bigboy tmp]# quotacheck -vagum quotacheck: WARNING - Quotafile /home/aquota.user was probably truncated. Can't save quota settings... quotacheck: Scanning /dev/hda3 [/home] done quotacheck: Checked 185 directories and 926 files [root@bigboy tmp]# [root@bigboy tmp]# edquota -u mp3user #init 3 or init 5 Enforcing quotas: ---------------- You can setup a cron job to run a script similar to the one below to achieve this. #!/bin/bash quotacheck -vagu # edquota -t # repquota