Questions tagged [quota]
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How to fix error Read-only file system after using quota
I am making linux exercises, but something went wrong. In /etc/fstab I add some to this line:
UUID=20c2ec5-dasdas-dasdas-dsd-sad / ext4 errors=remount-ro,usr-quota,grp-quota 0 1
(added: usr-quota,...
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What is the meaning of soft and hard in edquota command?
So, in edquota manual page it was written
Users are permitted to exceed their soft limits for a grace period
that may be specified per filesystem. Once the grace period has
expired, the ...
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(nspawn) container with filesystem quota
I need a container and within the container a way to set user filesystem quotas for ext4 or xfs. Only tried nspawn so far, but I'm not restricted to this particular technology. As explained here, ...
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Disk quota after file removal
I have an account on some free ssh accessed linux server. The disk per user quota is 100MB. Recently I've downloaded a file abot 80MB and next tried to unzip it. And then an error occured saying the ...
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How can I solve “OSError: [Errno 122] Disk quota exceeded”?
I run a python3 script and the program will output several JSON files with about 114.17 MB each. But after generating about 60 files, I get the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
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Can I 'yum remove quota' (CentOS 7)
To avoid a long conversation explaining why I want to do this I will just cut straight to the chase.
To totally remove quotas can I simply
yum remove quota
And change
UUID=ed9b61db-4055-4ecb-...
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Control Internet Bandwidth with tc on Raspberry Pi 3?
Modem/Router is connected to Internet (192.168.1.1)
No DHCP server is running on Modem/Router
Devices connect to the network through Wifi provided by Modem/Router
Devices receive DHCP settings ...
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Turning quota on yields warning message about device busy
I run quotacheck on a filesystem to enable user quota only so now the following file is present:
root@Cassiopeia:~# ls -l /mnt/imagemount/aquota.user
-rw------- 1 root root 7168 Ιαν 8 15:21 /mnt/...
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Difference between journaled and plain quota
I am trying to set up quotas on a filesystem and I am getting the famous message:
quotacheck: Your kernel probably supports journaled quota but you are
not using it. Consider switching to ...
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How to check what is using logical volume?
Maybe there is a better way to do this, so let me describe the whole problem. I put / and /home directories on separate LV. It happened that the / LV get out of space. I then backup my /home and are ...
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Debian CGROUP Install doesn't work after reboot
After I do this on my Debian Stretch:
sudo apt install cgroup-bin cgroup-tools cgroupfs-mount libcgroup1
I can issue this:
sudo systemctl set-property user-1000.slice CPUQuota=40%
I have 4 vCPU ...
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Which comes first, for a write/create: permissions check or quota check?
Browsing through fs/nfs/... but this wasn't obvious to me, so: if I try to write while being "above quota", to a file that doesn't belong to me, will I get EPERM or ENOSPC?
Another way to phrase this ...
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How do I remove a directory on a remote system that has a quota?
I have an rsync.net account that has hit its quota and I'm trying to remove (rm -rf) a directory to clean up space. However all the remove commands I can think of to try (rm, truncate, find -delete, ...
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Programmatically modify user quota
I have already configured my server to work with user quotas and everything works well. I can modify user quota with the edquota command. How could I do this programmatically, from a bash script for ...
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Cannot mkdir: Disk quota exceeded, but iNodes and space are far from exceeding
I am unpacking a tar file when I have error messages like this:
[xxxxx@lo-login-02 ~]$ tar -xvf ontonotes-release-5.0_LDC2013T19.tgz
...... (omitted lines)
tar: ontonotes-release-5.0/tools/ontonotes-...
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Hard inode disk quota not working (via SMB anonymous connection)
So I've decided to share folder via samba without authentication and with limited maximum size.
I've done everything as the second answer from there said, except that I used journaled quota.
Since ...
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Strange inode count with /dev/vzfs
I am using Plesk on an Ubuntu 14.04 server and experiencing some strange problems:
I checked mount:
/dev/vzfs on / type reiserfs (rw,usrquota,grpquota)
Then stat /dev/vzfs:
stat: cannot stat ‘/dev/...
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CentOS7 QUOTA xfs
I can not enable disk quotas for /home (/dev/md2). For / (/dev/md1) it works fine. What am I doing wrong?
cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <...
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How to send warning with Dovecot to users when over quota?
I'm trying to implement the quota warning to users over quota with Dovecot following this tip. I've added the following to my /etc/dovecot/conf.d/30-overquota.conf (any modication in the original /etc/...
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setting a quota on zfs doesn't work
I'm on FreeBSD 11. In order to set quota on my pool named storage, I enter these configs in terminal:
zfs set quota=10G storage
zfs set userquota@user1=1M storage
The problem is when I connect from ...
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What is the most recent technique to implement quotas?
Is the quota approach still in use to limit the usage of disk space and/or the concurrency between users.
Quota works with aquota.user files in the concerned directories AND some settings in /etc/...
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Systemd backed tmpfs | How to specify /tmp size manually
I mount /tmp on tmpfs using:
sudo systemctl enable tmp.mount
sudo systemctl start tmp.mount
But this way /tmp takes up all the free RAM:
$ df -h /tmp
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted ...
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Configuring Conky to report disk quota usage
Recently I learned how to set up per-user quotas on Debian, and now I'd like to add some quota information to Conky. I've read up a bit on the .conkyrc config, but I'm really struggling with the ...
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how to warn about user quotas of ftp user in a /sbin/nologin shell?
how would i do a check through a perl script or bash script remotely and throw a warning if the ftp upload size beyond the limits specified for that user.
only ftp login is allowed for the remote ftp ...
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Aix: edquota problem
Simple but don't work
I did
edquota -u myuser
Open vi and I put those lines
/home: blocks in use: 16, limits (soft = 10, hard = 30)
inodes in use: 4, limits (soft = 0, hard = 0)
But ...
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How are Linux user/group quotas counted if a file is owned by both the user and the group?
I want to set up a /home where users have their own private folder and in addition share a different group folder with other users.
The goal is that users have their own small-sized folder for private ...
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How to set per process disk quota?
I want to set disk quota (limit maximum space used in the file system) that a particular process can use under Linux. There seems to be plenty ways to limit disk quota for a user, but not at a per ...
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How do I set up user quota for /var/www?
I want to add quota per user in my Apache2 webroot. My /var/www directory is not a partition. I've found tutorials on how to set up quota for partitions, but how do I set up /etc/fstab without moving ...
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Setting a disk space quota on a samba share residing on an ZFS pool
I have several samba shares, one of which is used for storing some backups.
I want to set a disk space quota on said share, as the ZFS volume the share resides on is huge and multi-purpose... I don't ...
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ZFS groupused value not current
On my Solaris 11 box I have a zfs pool (z) that uses 100G group quotas on each user in /org/users folder. One user had reached their quota and cleaned up their data. The df output, that had previously ...
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using cpu.cfs_quota_us and cpu.cfs_period_us to limit CPU usage
There are 32 cores in a system (2 cpus each 16 cores) and I want to
limit a user to use only 4 cores (100% usage for that 4 cores). There
are two kernel parameter for that according to the manuals:
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Btrfs+LXC: any way to show even rough estimated free space for quota'ed subvol hosting LXC container?
I'm experimenting with LXC using Btrfs as a backing store. Btrfs allows for easy snapshot/deduplication and is ideal for spinning up several "pseudo-VMs".
The problem I'm having is that some of the ...
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Writing to quota folder as owner of folder instead of anyother user
I have a Debian Jessie machine. A hard disk mounted on its /home folder.
My /etc/fstab looks like
/dev/vda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/vdb swap swap defaults ...
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Get quota usage information as non-privileged user
I have non-privileged access to a Linux server (shared PHP+MySQL hosting) and there are disk space, memory, CPU usage, I/O quotas.
I wonder how can I get information about max/current quota usage ...
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issue in user Quota creation
I am trying to create a users quota in RHEL-7 with xfs file system. But I am not able do it.
The procedure that I followed is as below :-
1) edit /etc/fstab/
/dev/mapper/rhel-root / xfs ...
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Difference between block size and file size in quota
So I would like know the Difference between block limits and file limits in quota ?
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Cannot rm file: Disk quota exceeded
In bash (and over ssh) running rm FILENAME gives the error: rm: cannot remove 'FILENAME': Disk quota exceeded. I've seen the other posts (and everyting down the first page of google) on this topic and ...
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xfs directory quota doesn't work
I have two tasks and I want to run them in different directory and limit the directory's size. I use xfs's project quota to achieve this.
I follow the steps from here:https://solidlinux.wordpress.com/...
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“du -shm .” and “quota -s” information are not matching for particular user? [duplicate]
when du -cshm . is run from home directory of user, the below is the output.
[user@host ~]$ du -cshm .
2859 .
2859 total
and when quota -s command is run, below is the output.
[user@host ~]...
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Linux cgroups: limit CPU usage in absolute values which do not depend on CPU speed
I have a server with a 2.4GHz processor. And there are several cgroups, each one allowed to use 25% of CPU. That's equal to 600MHz.
Then I replace the CPU with a faster one, let's say 3.0GHz. If I ...
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How can users disk usage be limited without quotas?
I am currently working in a students project (machine learning) where we get access to a companies resources. They store their data on Windows servers, but we use Linux machines to access the data. ...
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Quota cannot impose its rules!
For several times I tried to set quota on /home in CentOS 6.5 on Vbox
but after remount /home and quotacheck terminal report this:
quotacheck: Cannot remount filesystem mounted on /home read-only ...
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How to setup the quota for NIS user
I have 3 VM's and configured NIS server one VM, user account created for client access also done. NIS client configured remaining two VM's. I am able to login through what I created username in NIS ...
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Number of occupied inodes via Quota?
Using the quota command, what is the number of occupied inodes by you in your pool account home directory? Find them out, with what type of file how many inodes you occupy?
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Unable to Configure Quotas in RHEL6 & CentOS6- quotecheck returns error message [closed]
Unable to Configure Quotas in RHEL6 & CentOS6- quotecheck returns error message
I've created new partition(/dev/sda6) and mounted it(on /hulk).
Edited /etc/fstab file to give quotas on the ...
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Why does du and quota results not match?
I have exceeded my disk quota on a system which I do not have root access. I tried removing old files but am still over. I tried runing du to find where I am using up all my space but it reports I am ...
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What is the unit measurement used in edquota?
I have the following quota setting for ec2-user:
Disk quotas for user ec2-user (uid 500):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/xvdf 32* ...
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Why does chmod require disk space? Not-in-place algorithm?
I try to chmod some files and I get the error "disk quota exceeded":
It's true that I don't have that much space remaining in the filesystem where I use chmod, namelynfs.mit.edu:/export/evodesign/...
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setquota fails silently
I'm trying to set a file system quota for a bunch of users on my system with a command like:
setquota -b /mntpnt < /file/with/quotas
This seems to work for almost all users. However, when I do ...
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Why was letter 's' chosen as on option for human readable format in quota command?
I often try to memorize command options by looking up for what they stand for.
This time I couldn't find any source on that: why is quota -s a --human-readable alternative, what does s stand for?
