Yes, it should be possible to use quota on / partition. For helping you I'd need to know the error message you get but probably you forgot to create quota files with quotacheck?
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how are you?
how could i use qouta on my (/) partion?
i tried to add usrquota
but it give an error
and the system fail to boot
Yes, it should be possible to use quota on / partition. For helping you I'd need to know the error message you get but probably you forgot to create quota files with quotacheck?