Disk Quotas

Creating Solaris Disk Quotas

1. Create a 600 root:root file named 'quotas' in the root of the filesystem to be restricted.
2. Edit quota for a typical user.

   # /usr/sbin/edquota someuser

3. Make the quota line look like this: (example: 100MB hard limit, 90MB soft limit)

   fs $FILESYS blocks (soft = 95000, hard = 100000) inodes (soft = 9000, hard = 10000)

   Remember a block is 1KB.
4. Copy the quota to each other user.

   # /usr/sbin/edquota -p someuser someotheruser

5. Optionally, set the soft limit time limit.

   # /usr/sbin/edquota -t $TIME_IN_SECONDS

# /usr/sbin/quotacheck $FILESYS
# /usr/sbin/quotaon $FILESYS

It would be wise to create a startup file to do this for you.

Reporting:

# repquota -v $FILESYS

(based on http://www.ifh.ee.ethz.ch/~ballisti/computer_topics/diskquota-sol7.html)