Activate Quotas in kernel: File systems ---> Quota support [*] Quota support <*> Old quota format support <*> Quota format v2 support emerge quota rc-update add quota boot Add quota to the partition in /etc/fstab /dev/hde1 /quota ext2 usrquota,grpquota 1 1 Add quota data files: # touch /quota/aquota.user # touch /quota/aquota.group # chmod 600 /quota/aquota.user # chmod 600 /quota/aquota.group Set soft-limit to 100kb and hardlimit to 200kb on /quota mountpoint setquota -u mike 100 200 0 0 /quota/ You can also edit quotas with : edquota -u mike The manual adviced me to run : quotacheck -avug, once a week but i failed to figure out why. It seems to work just fine for me without.