Hey there,

I have a user that's trying to copy/write files into their home directory that is NFS mounted from a filer. However, when they do that they get the error message: "Disk quota exceeded". The problem is that we did not enable disk quotas on any of the filesystems. There is a inode limit on the filer but it's way high. Running 'quota' on the user shows:

Apparently, the user has reached a file quota of 1048576. Is there any way I can increase that on the server? I'm googling like mad and can't seem to find a resolution to this.

-twantrd

Hi!

are you "root" on serverA? If not, "go ask your server administrator" :P

If yes, continue:

Log in to serverA and type "edquota henry".
You will get your default editor (you may change it by setting EDITOR env. variable) with something like the output from quota you posted.
The columns blocks, files and grace are informational only, the other columns define the quota for this user.
If you enter 0 (zero), no quota will be used.
So your result should look like
maybe there are several lines for each partition with quota enabled. you can find the correct one, im sure. if not, ask your /etc/fstab
the cols mean (in order of appearance):
blocks: used blocks on disk (KB)
quota: soft quota in blocks, user may break this limit a short time (the grace period)
limit: had limit, no way for the user the break this one.
grace: informational, states time left before soft limit is enforced
files and following: same as for blocks, but numbers mean number of files

you can disable quota completely on a partition by removing the quota options from /etc/fstab (and remounting the file system)

for more info, read man edquota, Quota mini-HOWTO en (or in german, for users like me: Quota mini-HOWTO de)
In the HOWTO, the output of edquota is in an old format, don't mind, the remainder is correct for current quota system, too.

I'll give that a shot. Thanks for the quick response!

-twantrd