The XFS quota subsystem manages limits on disk space (blocks) and file (inode) usage. XFS quotas control or report on usage of these items on a user, group, or directory or project level. Group and project quotas are only mutually exclusive on older non-default XFS disk formats.

XFS is a high-performance 64-bit journaling file system created by Silicon Graphics, Inc (SGI) in 1993. [7] It was the default file system in SGI's IRIX operating system starting with its version 5.3.

Aug 11, 2019 · To setup disk quota on XFS file system, first we must enable quota using following mount options: uquota: Enable user quota & also enforce usage limits. uqnoenforce: Enable user quota and report usage but don’t enforce usage limits. gquota: Enable group quota & …

The quota subsystem warns users when they exceed their allotted limit, but allows some extra space for current work (hard limit/soft limit). In addition, XFS filesystems with limit enforcement turned off can be used as an effective disk usage accounting system.

Jan 13, 2020 · In this article, I will show how to assign filesize quotas to subdirectories within an XFS filesystem using the project quota. This can be beneficial for managing user directories, application data that partitions among folders , or throttling the size of Docker volume containers.

Use the xfs_quota tool to manage quotas on an XFS file system. This tool is catered to quota implementation in XFS. While other quota tools, such as edquota might enable you to edit XFS quotas, xfs_quota is preferred. For more information, see the xfs_quota(8) manual page.

Jan 2, 2024 · In this article I will share the steps to configure xfs user quota, xfs group guota and xfs project quota which you can also refer as xfs disk quota as the quota is applied on directory level. The steps and commands to implement xfs quota is different compared to ext4 filesystem quota. How xfs quota grace period works?

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Aug 29, 2014 · Set the default limits... xfs_quota -x -c 'limits bsoft=45G bhard=50g -d' /myxfs Terrific. All quotas are set and any new user that logs in will automatically receive the default limit. Now I'll exclude my superuser and postgres from the default by setting their limits explicitly to 0.

Dec 9, 2012 · Like any other file system (EXT3/EXT4), XFS does support quota management. Quotas are used to allocate/restrict disk space usage in a file system. XFS quota supports 3 types i.e., user, group and project level quotas. Technically, there is no directory level quota in XFS, but project type of quota can be used to implement directory level quota.