Knowledge Base

Disk quotas on xfs are supported, and all EL7 and above systems in the company use xfs. No limits are planned for ext4 filesystems at this time.

Report on entire filesystem quotas

sudo xfs_quota -xc 'report -h' /home


$ sudo xfs_quota -xc 'report -h' /home
User quota on /home (/dev/mapper/bf-home)
                        Blocks
User ID      Used   Soft   Hard Warn/Grace
---------- ---------------------------------
root            0  1000M   1.3G  00 [------]
svcacct1     192K  1000M   1.3G  00 [------]
jdoe1             0  1000M   1.3G  00 [------]
bgstack15     98.2M  1000M   1.3G  00 [------]



sudo du -xBM --max-depth 1 /home | sort -n | tail


# sudo du -xBM --max-depth 1 /home | sort -n | tail
1M      /home/testuser
2M      /home/wharvey
53M     /home/jsmith
179M    /home/bgstack15
261M    /home/svcacct2
14489M  /home/jdoe1
14986M  /home

Changing quotas

After a Linux engineer approves, a user quota may be changed.

Change the default quota

The default quota affects all users. Do not use this one!

sudo xfs_quota -x -c 'limit bsoft=250m bhard=300m -d' /home

Change a user quota

sudo xfs_quota -xc 'limit bsoft=1000m bhard=1200m jdoe1' /home

Remove a user quota

Setting to zero will return a user back to the default quota. The documentation states this makes an unlimited quota, but the documentation is incorrect (original research).

sudo xfs_quota -xc 'limit bsoft=0 bhard=0 jdoe1' /home