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Linux in a Nutshell, 6th Edition

by Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins
September 2009
Beginner
942 pages
85h 34m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

quotaoff

Synopsis

quotaoff [options] [filesystems]

System administration command. Turn off enforcement of filesystem quotas. This command is a synonym for quotaon -f.

Options

-a, --all

Turn off quotas for all filesystems in /etc/fstab.

-F format, --format=format

Check quota files for the specified format. (See quota for valid formats.)

-g, --group

Turn group quotas off.

-p, --print-status

Print current quota status, then exit.

-u, --user

Turn user quotas off.

-v, --verbose

Print a message for each filesystem affected by the command.

-xcommand, -xfs-command command

On an XFS system, perform one of the following commands:

delete

Remove quota metadata from the XFS filesystem.

enforcement

Turn off limit enforcement on an XFS filesystem.

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