Disabling User Quotas

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Solaris™ Operating Environment Boot Camp
By David Rhodes, Dominic Butler
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Chapter 10.  Administering Quotas


If we ever wish to disable quotas for every user, the easiest way is to remove the quota file and alter the "mount" option in /etc/vfstab, then either remount the device and run quotaoff, or simply reboot the system.

However, if we only want to disable quotas for one particular user, we would run edquota and set the relevant entry back to "0." This will be taken to mean "unlimited." For example, the values below would disable all quotas for testuser:

 hydrogen# edquota testuser fs /export/home blocks (soft = 0, hard = 0) inodes (soft = 0,    hard = 0) hydrogen# 

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    Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp
    Solaris Operating Environment Boot Camp
    ISBN: 0130342874
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2002
    Pages: 301

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