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Operating Systems Solaris Create user with Restricted Space usage Post 302407580 by achenle on Thursday 25th of March 2010 08:39:08 PM
Old 03-25-2010
One thing to be aware of if you start using quotas is that in a system that uses a lot of NFS shared file systems, using the "quota" utility to check file system quotas can take a real long time, and if any NFS server is down running "quota" can effectively hang.

And the default configuration of Solaris (and IIRC most Linux distros) is to automatically run "quota" upon a user's logging into a system.
 

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repquota

REPQUOTA(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       REPQUOTA(8)

NAME

       repquota - summarize quotas for a filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/repquota [ -vsug ] [ -t | -n ] [ -F format-name ] filesystem...

       /usr/sbin/repquota [ -avtsug ] [ -t | -n ] [ -F format-name ]

DESCRIPTION

       repquota  prints  a  summary  of  the  disc usage and quotas for the specified file systems.  For each user the current number of files and
       amount of space (in kilobytes) is printed, along with any quotas created with edquota(8).

OPTIONS

       -a     Report on all filesystems indicated in /etc/mtab to be read-write with quotas.

       -v     Report all quotas, even if there is no usage. Be also more verbose about quotafile information.

       -t     Truncate user/group names longer than 9 characters. This results in nicer output when there are such names.

       -n     Don't resolve UIDs/GIDs to names. This can speedup printing a lot.

       -s     Try to report used space, number of used inodes and limits in more appropriate units than default ones.

       -F format-name
	      Report quota for specified format (ie. don't perform format autodetection).  Possible format names are: vfsold  (version	1  quota),
	      vfsv0 (version 2 quota), rpc (quota over NFS), xfs (quota on XFS filesystem)

       -g     Report quotas for groups.

       -u     Report quotas for users. This is the default.

       Only the super-user may view quotas which are not their own.

FILES

       aquota.user or aquota.group
			   quota file at the filesystem root (version 2 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user or quota.group
			   quota file at the filesystem root (version 1 quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/mtab	   default filesystems
       /etc/passwd	   default set of users
       /etc/group	   default set of groups

SEE ALSO

       quota(1), quotactl(2), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8)

4th Berkeley Distribution													       REPQUOTA(8)
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