Turning on quotas

To use the quota functionality on a file system, quotas must be turned on. You can turn quotas on at mount time or after a file system is mounted.

Note:

Before turning on quotas, the root directory of the file system must contain a file for user quotas named quotas, and a file for group quotas named quotas.grp owned by root.

To turn on quotas

  1. To turn on user and group quotas for a VxFS file system, enter:

      # vxquotaon /mount_point
  2. To turn on only user quotas for a VxFS file system, enter:

      # vxquotaon -u /mount_point
  3. To turn on only group quotas for a VxFS file system, enter:

      # vxquotaon -g /mount_point