VERITAS File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide

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