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