How to allocate disk space to a user?

Question

linux

Good evening! You need to allocate 5GB of space to the new user. Those. so that he has only 5GB for all his files. How can this be done in Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Through quota. You can read it here: https://www.dmosk.ru/miniinstruktions.php?mini=quo...

Answer 2

You can make (via dd) a file of the desired size, format it and mount it via mkfs. Give the user permissions to this file system. Iron will not go beyond its limits.