Enabling and Disabling Disk Quotas

Use the quotaoff and quotaon commands to disable and enable disk quotas.

For more information, see the quotaon(8) manual page. The following steps provide examples for enabling and disabling quotas.

  • Disable disk quotas for all users, groups on a specific file system.
    sudo quotaoff -guv /mnt
  • Disable disk quotas on all automatically mounted file systems for all users, groups.
    sudo quotaoff -aguv
  • Reactivate disk quotas on all automatically mounted file systems for all users and groups.
    sudo quotaon -aguv