Veritas File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Quota
Quota Commands
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Quota Commands
Most of the quotas commands in VxFS are similar to BSD quotas commands. In general, quota
administration for VxFS is performed using commands similar to HFS quota commands. The VxFS mount
command supports a special mount option (–o quota), that can be used to turn on quotas at mount time.
NOTE For additional information on the quota commands, see the corresponding manual
pages.When VxFS file systems are exported via NFS, the VxFS quota commands on the
NFS client cannot query or edit quotas. You can use the VxFS quota commands on the
server to query or edit quotas.
Using Quotas
This section shows usage examples of the VxFS quota commands.
quotaon
To use the quota functionality on a file system, quotas must be turned on. You can turn them on at mount
time or after a file system is mounted.
NOTE Before turning on quotas, the root directory of the file system must contain a file for user
quotas named quotas owned by root.
To turn on quotas for a VxFS file system, enter:
# quotaon /mount_point
mount
You can also turn on quotas for a file system at mount time by specifying the –o quota option to the mount
command:
# mount –F vxfs –o quota special|mount_point