System Administration Guide

How to Turn Quotas On

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Turn file system quotas on by using the quotaon command.


    # quotaon [-v] -a | ffilesystem ...]

    -v

    (Optional) Verbose option. 

    -a

    Turns quotas on for all file systems with an rq entry in the /etc/vfstab file.

    filesystem ...

    Turns quotas on for one or more file systems that you specify. 

Example--Turning Quotas On

The following example turns quotas on for the file systems on the /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s2 and /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s2 slices.


# quotaon -v /dev/dsk/c0t4d0s2 /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s2
/dev/dsk/c0t4d0s2: quotas turned on
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s2: quotas turned on