Veritas File System 5.1 SP1 Administrator"s Guide (5900-1499, April 2011)

Turning on quotas
To use the quota functionality on a file system, quotas must be turned on. You
can turn quotas on at mount time or after a file system is mounted.
To turn on quotas
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To turn on user quotas for a VxFS file system, enter:
# quotaon /mount_point
Turning on quotas at mount time
Quotas can be turned on with the mount command when you mount a file system.
To turn on quotas at mount time
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To turn on user quotas for a file system at mount time, enter:
# mount -F vxfs -o quota special /mount_point
Editing user quotas
You can set up user quotas using the edquota command. You must have superuser
privileges to edit quotas.
edquota creates a temporary file for the given user; this file contains on-disk
quotas for each mounted file system that has a quotas file. It is not necessary that
quotas be turned on for edquota to work. However, the quota limits are applicable
only after quotas are turned on for a given file system.
To edit quotas
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Use the edquota command to edit quotas:
# edquota username
Modifying time limits
The soft and hard limits can be modified or assigned values. For any user, usage
can never exceed the hard limit after quotas are turned on.
Modified time limits apply to the entire file system and cannot be set selectively
for each user.
79Quotas
Using quotas