[SOLVED] What is the meaning of edquota command?

WeatherReport · 11-28-2019, 10:31 PM

when i type

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edquota -g quotagrp

following this http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/quota_tutorial.html tutorial

it gives me this

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   Disk quotas for group quotagrp (gid 619):
     Filesystem                   blocks       soft       hard     inodes     soft     hard
     /dev/loop0                        6          0          0          4        0        0

what is the meaning of blocks, soft, hard, inodes, soft and hard again?

vincix · 11-29-2019, 01:09 PM

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/E...4D5752201.html
Knowing what blocks or inodes are have nothing to do in particular to disk quotas, but to how disks work and how filesystems work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_(data_storage)

berndbausch · 11-29-2019, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by WeatherReport

what is the meaning of blocks, soft, hard, inodes, soft and hard again?

The Archlinux Wiki tends to have good articles, including the disk quota one.

Block quotas limit the amount of storage a user or group can obtain in the filesystem. Inode quotas limit the number of inodes, i.e. the number of files, directories, symbolic links etc.

Hard limits are exactly that - hard limits. It's possible to go over soft limits during the grace period.