Specifications

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4 Click Home, specify the disk quota using the Disk Quota eld and the adjacent pop-up
menu, and then click Save.
5 Make sure disk quotas are enabled for the volume where the share point resides.
6 In Server Admin, select the server hosting home folders and then click File Sharing.
7 Click Volumes and then select the volume that stores home folders.
8 Click Quotas, select “Enable quotas on this volume,” and then click Save.
From the command line:
To set disk quotas for users on a share point: m
$ sudo edquota -u -p proto-username username ...
To set disk quotas for groups on a share point: m
$ sudo edquota -u -p proto-groupname groupname ...
To set the grace period for enforcing disk quotas for users: m
$ sudo edquota -t -u
To set the grace period for enforcing disk quotas for groups: m
$ sudo edquota -t -g
Note: You can specify the default grace period in /usr/include/sys/quota.h. For a
user, you specify the grace period in the le .quota.ops.user located at the root of
the user’s mounted le system. For a group, you specify the grace period in the le
.quota.ops.group located at the root of the group’s mounted le system.
Parameter Description
proto-username The user whose disk quota will be duplicated to
other users.
username The user whose disk quota should be set to the
same quota as proto-username.
1=shared, 0=not shared.
proto-groupname The group whose disk quota will be applied to
other groups.
groupname The group whose disk quota should be set to the
same quota as proto-groupname.
For information about edquota, see its man page. For the basics of command-line tool
usage, see Introduction to Command-Line Administration.
Monitoring Share Point Quotas
Use Server Admin to view the space on a volume allocated for a user. This space (disk
quota), congured in Workgroup Manager, is the maximum size of a user’s home
folder.