System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

How to Turn Off Quotas

  1. Become superuser.

  2. Turn off file system quotas.


    # quotaoff [-v] -a filesystem ...
    

    -v

    Displays a message from each file system when quotas are turned off. 

    -a

    Turns off quotas for all file systems. 

    filesystem

    Turns off quotas for one or more file systems you specify. More than one file system is specified by separating each file system name with a space. 

Example—Turning Off Quotas

The following example shows how to turn off the quotas for the /export/home file system.


# quotaoff -v /export/home
/export/home: quotas turned off