by Ras
24. April 2012 19:27
### Quota management
You can specify two kind of limits for users
Soft limits - warning stage - exceeds amount of time (default 7 days), it will become a hard limit
Hard limits - cannot be exceeded
Quota Tools:
1. edquota - facilitates the creation of quotas for users
2. quotacheck - checks for consistency in usage and quota policy
3. quotaon - enables quotas on filesystem
4. repquota - displays quota information
##Steps to enable quota support
1. Modify /etc/vfstab - enable quotas per filesystem ( edit "Mount options" column with rq)
2. create emty 'quotas' file in root of desired file system (e.g. touch /export/home/quotas && chmod 600 /export/home/quotas)
3. edquota username
fs /export/home blocks (soft = 500, hard = 1000) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 0)
edquota -p username1 username2 username3 - will copy username1 policy to others
4. quotacheck -va
5. quota -v username1
6. quotaon -v /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 - enables quota
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