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Creating quotas

Quotas enable you to restrict or track the disk space and number of files that are used by a user, group, or qtree. You can use the Add Quota wizard in Storage Manager to create a quota and to apply the quota to a specific volume or qtree.

About this task

Using Storage Manager, the minimum value that you can specify for the hard limit and soft limit on the number of files that the quota can own is 100. If you want to specify a value lower than 100, you should use the command-line interface (CLI).

  1. Click Storage > Quotas.
  2. Click +Add.
  3. Select the volume for the quota target.
  4. If Enable Quota is selected, select the Qtree from the list.

    If User or Group is selected, you need to select the user or group to apply the quota to.

  5. Specify the file limit and the space limit.
  6. Click Save.

After you finish

You can use the local user name or RID to create user quotas. If you create the user quota or group quota by using the user name or group name, then the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/group file must be updated, respectively.

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