Quotas and Maximum Number of Files11-5
There is no limit as to how much disk space or how many files the user mfisher
can use. You can, however, use the quota report command to display the
amount of disk space and the number of files used by this user.
Both user and group quotas apply to the entire specified volume (or the root volume if
no volume name is specified). This is true even if the quota target in the
quotas file is
specified in the form of a path name. For example, if the quota target for the user
named jdoe is /vol/home/user/jdoe, the filer imposes the quotas on all files written by
jdoe, not just the ones written to /vol/home/user/jdoe.
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The quotas file specifies what the restrictions are on users, groups, and trees.
Whether these restrictions take effect depends on the quota command. The
quota command enables you to do the following tasks:
enable and disable quotas on a per-volume basis
resize quotas on a per-volume basis
display information about all active quotas or about quotas that apply to a speci-
fied path
Some of the information from quota commands is available through SNMP using
the Dell custom MIB. For more information about the MIB, refer to About the Dell
Custom MIB in Chapter 4.

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The quota on|off command enables or disables quotas for all volumes or a spe-
cific volume. Use the following syntax when using the command:
quotas [on|off]
volume
Use the following command to enable quotas for a volume:
quota on
volume
This command computes the disk usage of each quota target. The computation can
take a few minutes to complete for a large number of quotas. To find out how much
quota initialization the filer has completed, use the quota command without any
arguments. For example:
quota
vol0: quotas are on.
vol1: quotas are initializing (24% done).
vol3: quotas are off.
Use the following command to disable quotas for a volume:
quota off
volume
Because the filer remembers whether quotas are on or off even after it reboots, there
is no need to add a quota command to /etc/rc.