How to Disable Quotas for a User
Use the quota editor to create a temporary file containing one line for each mounted file system that has a quotas file in its top-level directory.
# edquota username
Where username specifies the user name whose quota you want to disable.
Caution - Although you can specify multiple users as arguments to the edquota command, the information displayed does not show which user
this information belongs with, which could create some confusion.Change the number of 1-Kbyte disk blocks, both soft and hard, and the number of inodes, both soft and hard, to 0.
Note - Be sure you change the values to zero. Do not delete the line from the text file.
Verify that you have disabled a user's quota.
# quota -v username
-v
Displays user quota information on all mounted file systems with quotas enabled.
username
Specifies the user name (UID) whose quota you want to check.
Examples--Disabling Quotas for a User
The following example shows the contents of the temporary file opened by the edquota command on a system where /files is the only mounted file system that contains a quotas file in the file system's root directory.
fs /files blocks (soft = 50, hard = 60) inodes (soft = 90, hard = 100) |
The following example shows the same temporary file after quotas have been disabled.
fs /files blocks (soft = 0, hard = 0) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 0) |
How to Turn Off Quotas
Turn off file system quotas.
# quotaoff [-v] -a filesystem ...
-v
Displays a message from each file system when quotas are turned off.
-a
Turns off quotas for all file systems.
filesystem
Turns off quotas for one or more file systems you specify. More than one file system is specified by separating each file system name with a space.
Example--Turning Off Quotas
The following example shows how to turn off the quotas for the /export/home file system.
# quotaoff -v /export/home /export/home: quotas turned off |