Turning Quotas on

quotaon is used to turn on quota accounting; quotaoff to turn it off. In fact both files are same. They are executed at system startup and shutdown correspondingly.

To turn on quotas the given command should be used:

Syntax:

quotaon [options] [filesystem]

Options for quotaon command are as follows:

-v         verbose option.

-a         Turns quotas on for all the file systems within an usrquta,grpquota entry in /etc/fstab file.

Let consider the following instance.

#quotaon         -va       /home

dev/hda6 - quota turned on

To turn off quotas the given command should be used:

quotaoff          [options]          [filesystem]