Information about the package, quota, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The quota package is designed for, System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage.
Package Name:
quota
Summary:
System administration tools for monitoring users' disk usage
Description:
The quota package contains system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and or group disk usage per filesystem.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.17
Release:
23.el6
Size:
1.0 M
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
BSD and GPLv2+
Control the quota package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install quota
This command will install quota on the server.
yum remove quota
This command will un-install quota on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove quota, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove quota
This command will un-install quota on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove quota when using the -y flag.
yum update quota
This command will update quota to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove quota, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update quota
This command will update quota to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove quota when using the -y flag.
yum info quota
This command will show you core information about the quota package.
yum deplist quota
This command will show you the dependencies for quota. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update quota
This command will check if there is an update waiting on quota. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.