about quota

[chuanpeng.wang]

OS 11.11
How to use quota?
I turn on 1G quotas for one username.
But the other username which has no quotas limit report reach the quotas when he used about 30G on a file system.

Why?

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
as a start read "man 5 quota".

You have set the quota for one user as 1 Gb, but another user reports a quota at 30Gb ?

That will be down to the filesystem having a general quota of 30Gb.

Please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=32222

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I would suggest the following.

Impose quotas globally with the exception of root.

If you have a user like oracle owning large databases, then set the quota high.

If possible to total of the quotas should be less than available disk space on the /home filesystem so that you are assured of not running out of space due to user error(s-------y).

SEP

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
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If the problem is resolved, please complete the thread by summarizing the solution you applied and closing the thread.

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[chuanpeng.wang]

This is an issue on HPUX 11.11 VxFS 3.3

A user can't use bigger than 256GB disk space on VxFS 3.3 filesystem with 8k block size if quota is set and the user doesn't have soft/hard limit.

Patch PHKL_33377 will fix it.