To turn Linux disk quotas on for an already mounted filesystem, the quotaon utility can be used. A root, use the following to enable user and group quotas:

quotaon -vug <devicename>

[root@RHEL03 ~]# quotaon -vug /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 [/home]: group quotas turned on
/dev/sdb1 [/home]: user quotas turned on

To temporarily turn off Linux disk quotas, execute the following command as root:

quotaoff -vug <devicename>

[root@RHEL03 ~]# quotaoff -vug /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 [/home]: group quotas turned off
/dev/sdb1 [/home]: user quotas turned off

 

Related Topics...

• Introduction to Linux Disk Quota

• How to create Linux disk quota database files (aquota.group and aquota.user) using quotacheck command

• How to manage Linux disk quota using edquota and repquota commands

 

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