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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Auto Increasing Quota for User. Post 302734975 by thmnetwork on Friday 23rd of November 2012 07:56:59 AM
Old 11-23-2012
Unix systems generally strive to be as inert as possible. In addition to assuming as little as possible, it helps ensure the system is operating exactly how you intended it to operate since it has required you to be specific about what you're wanting it to do and to tell it to do it at some point. There's also a large impulse to re-use software components so as to reduce bugs and to keep from forcing the user to re-learn too much.

So yes it's possible but it will never be a native feature of the quota system. Scheduled changes of any sort on a Unix system are expected to come in the form of a cronjob or an AT job. Personally it sounds like you're wanting the latter, so I would schedule an AT job where it issues whatever the desired setquota would be. If it's temporary you can just schedule a second one for several weeks out that issues another setquota that puts it back where it currently is now.

Last edited by thmnetwork; 11-23-2012 at 03:14 PM..
 

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

NAME
setquota - set disk quotas SYNOPSIS
setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit -a | filesystem... setquota [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] [ -p protoname ] name -a | filesystem... setquota -b [ -rm ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] -a | filesystem... setquota -t [ -m ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem... setquota -T [ -m ] [ -u | -g ] [ -F quotaformat ] name block-grace inode-grace -a | filesystem... DESCRIPTION
setquota is a command line quota editor. The filesystem, user/group name and new quotas for this filesystem can be specified on the com- mand line. Note that if a number is given in the place of a user/group name it is treated as an UID/GID. -r, --remote Edit also remote quota use rpc.rquotad on remote server to set quota. This option is available only if quota tools were compiled with enabled support for setting quotas over RPC. -m, --no-mixed-pathnames Currently, pathnames of NFSv4 mountpoints are sent without leading slash in the path. rpc.rquotad uses this to recognize NFSv4 mounts and properly prepend pseudoroot of NFS filesystem to the path. If you specify this option, setquota will always send paths with a trailing slash. This can be useful for legacy reasons but be aware that quota over RPC will stop working if you are using new rpc.rquotad. -F, --format=quotaformat Perform setting 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) -u, --user Set user quotas for named user. This is the default. -g, --group Set group quotas for named group. -p, --prototype=protoname Use quota settings of user or group protoname to set the quota for the named user or group. -b, --batch Read information to set from stdin (input format is name block-softlimit block-hardlimit inode-softlimit inode-hardlimit ). Empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. -c, --continue-batch If parsing of an input line in batch mode fails, continue with processing the next line. -t, --edit-period Set grace times for users/groups. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds. -T, --edit-times Alter times for individual user/group when softlimit is enforced. Times block-grace and inode-grace are specified in seconds or can be string 'unset'. -a, --all Go through all filesystems with quota in /etc/mtab and perform setting. To disable a quota, set the coresponding parameter to 0. To change quotas for several filesystems, invoke once for each filesystem. Only the super-user may edit quotas. 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 mounted filesystem table SEE ALSO
edquota(8), quota(1), quotactl(2), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), repquota(8) SETQUOTA(8)
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