How to Change Quotas for a User

1. Become superuser.

2. Use the quota editor to open a temporary file containing one line for each mounted file system that has a quotas file in the file system's root directory.

   # edquota username

   Where username specifies the user name whose quota you want to change.

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   Caution –

   Although you can specify multiple users as arguments to the edquota command, the information displayed does not show which user this information belongs to, which could create some confusion.

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3. Enter the number of 1-Kbyte disk blocks, both soft and hard, and the number of inodes, both soft and hard.

4. Verify that a user's quota has been correctly changed.

   # quota -v username

   -v	Displays user quota information on all mounted file systems with quotas enabled.
   username	Specifies the user name whose quota you want to check.

Examples—Changing 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 containing a quotas file in the file system's root directory.

fs /files blocks (soft = 0, hard = 0) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 0)

The following example shows the same temporary file after quotas have been changed.

fs /files blocks (soft = 0, hard = 500) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 100)

The following example shows how to verify that the hard quotas for user smith have been changed to 500 1-Kbyte blocks, and 100 inodes.

# quota -v smith
Disk quotas for smith (uid 12):
Filesystem  usage  quota  limit  timeleft  files  quota  limit  timeleft
 
  /files     1       0     500              1       0     100