How do I enable/disable disk quotas in Linux?

petulia3478

You can disable quotas without setting them to 0.
To turn all user and group quotas off:

# /sbin/quotaoff -vaug
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 [/home]: group quotas turned off
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 [/home]: user quotas turned off

If neither the -u or -g options are specified, only the user quotas are disabled.The -v option turns on verbose output.

To enable quotas on all filesystems:

# /sbin/quotaon -vaug

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 [/home]: group quotas turned on

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 [/home]: user quotas turned on

To disable/enable quotas on a specific filesystem:

# /sbin/quotaoff -vaug /home
# /sbin/quotaon -vaug /home