Questions tagged [quota]
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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?
syntagma
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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* 1 1 6days 8 0 …
Khanh Tran
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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. It seems not to be possible to set up quotas. The…
Martin Thoma
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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 so counted values might not be right. please stop…
Amir.A.G
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"du -shm ." and "quota -s" information are not matching for particular user?
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 ~]$ quota -s
Disk quotas for user user (uid 1234):
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therock
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