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mmedquota Command
Group Name or group ID of target group for quota editing.
Options
-d Reestablish default quota limits for a specific user, group, or fileset that has had an explicit quota
limit set by a previous invocation of the mmedquota command.
-g Sets quota limits or grace times for groups.
-j Sets quota limits or grace times for filesets.
-p Applies already-established limits to a particular user, group or fileset.
When invoked with the -u option, ProtoUser limits are automatically applied to the specified User
or space-delimited list of users.
When invoked with the -g option, ProtoGroup limits are automatically applied to the specified
Group or space-delimited list of groups.
When invoked with the -j option, ProtoFileset limits are automatically applied to the specified fileset
or space-delimited list of fileset names.
You can specify any user as a ProtoUser for another User, or any group as a ProtoGroup for
another Group, or any fileset as a ProtoFileset for another Fileset.
-t Sets grace period during which quotas can exceed the soft limit before it is imposed as a hard
limit. The default grace period is one week.
This flag is followed by one of the following flags: -u, -g or -j, to specify whether the changes
apply to users, groups, or filesets respectively.
-u Sets quota limits or grace times for users.
Exit status
0 Successful completion.
nonzero A failure has occurred.
Security
You must have root authority to run the mmedquota command.
GPFS must be running on the node from which the mmedquota command is issued.
Examples
1. To set user quotas for userid paul, issue this command:
mmedquota -u paul
The system displays information in your default editor similar to:
*** Edit quota limits for USR paul:
NOTE: block limits will be rounded up to the next multiple of
the block size. block units may be: K, M, or G
gpfs0: blocks in use: 864K, limits (soft = 2500K , hard = 10M)
inodes in use: 9, limits (soft = 100, hard = 1000)
2. To reset default group quota values for the group blueteam, issue this command:
mmedquota -d -g blueteam
To verify the change, issue this command:
mmrepquota -q fs1
The system displays information similar to:
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