Your soft quota is less than your hard quota. Since exceeding your hard quota can result in drastic consequences see the paragraph above , do pay attention to this warning. If you exceed your soft quota for more than seven days, it automatically becomes your hard quota. Depending on space availability, individual quotas may be adjusted during the year.
To find your disk quota from a Windows machine, open a view of your H: drive home directory , right click on any folder, and select Properties. If only -g is specified, only the group quota file is created. If neither the -u or -g options are specified, only the user quota file is created.
Assigning Quotas per User. The last step is assigning the disk quotas with the edquota command. User must exist prior to setting the user quota. Assigning Quotas per User To assign the quota for a user, use the following command:.
Replace username with the user to which you want to assign the quotas. To verify that the quota for the user has been set, use the following command:. The first column is the name of the file system that has a quota enabled for it. The second column shows how many blocks the user is currently using.
The next two columns are used to set soft and hard block limits for the user on the file system. The inodes column shows how many inodes the user is currently using. The last two columns are used to set the soft and hard inode limits for the user on the file system. The hard block limit is the absolute maximum amount of disk space that a user or group can use. Once this limit is reached, no further disk space can be used. The grace period can be expressed in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, or months.
If any of the values are set to 0, that limit is not set. In the text editor, change the desired limits. Change desired limits For example:. Assigning Quotas per Group. Quotas can also be assigned on a per-group basis. For example, to set a group quota for the devel group the group must exist prior to setting the group quota , use the command:.
Setting the Grace Period for Soft Limits. If a given quota has soft limits, you can edit the grace period i. This command works on quotas for inodes or blocks, for either users or groups. While other edquota commands operate on quotas for a particular user or group, the -t option operates on every file system with quotas enabled. Contents Exit focus mode. In this section Topic Description User-level Administration of Disk Quotas How to get more free disk space after exceeding the quota allowance.
System-level Administration of Disk Quotas The system administrator can set quotas for specific users on a volume. The administrator can also set default quotas for the volume. Disk Quota Limits Describes two types of disk quota limits and how disk quota limits are measured.
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