How to Disable Quotas for a User

1. Become superuser.

2. Use the quota editor to create a temporary file containing one line for each mounted file system that has a quotas file in its top-level directory.

   # edquota username

   username

   User name whose quota will be disabled.

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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 it belongs with, which could create some confusion.

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3. Change the number of 1-Kbyte disk blocks, both soft and hard, and the number of inodes, both soft and hard, to 0 (zero).

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   Note -

   Be sure you change the values to zero. Do not delete the line from the text file.

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4. Exit the editor, saving your changes.

5. Verify that you have disabled a user's quota by using the quota command.

   # quota -v username

   -v	Displays user quota information on all mounted file systems with quotas enabled.
   username	User name (UID) whose quota you want to check.

Examples--Disabling Quotas for a User

The following example shows the contents of the temporary file opened by edquota on a system where /files is the only mounted file system containing a quotas file in its top-level directory.

fs /files blocks (soft = 50, hard = 60) inodes (soft = 90, hard = 100)

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

fs /files blocks (soft = 0, hard = 0) inodes (soft = 0, hard = 10)