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mmquotaoff Command
Name
mmquotaoff – Deactivates quota limit checking.
Synopsis
mmquotaoff [-u] [-g] [-j] [-v] {Device [Device ...] | -a}
Description
The mmquotaoff command disables quota limit checking by GPFS.
If none of: -u, -j or -g is specified, the mmquotaoff command deactivates quota limit checking for users,
groups, and filesets.
If the -a option is not specified, Device must be the last parameter entered.
Parameters
Device[ Device ... ]
The device name of the file system to have quota limit checking deactivated.
Options
If more than one file system is listed, the names must be delimited by a space. File system names
need not be fully-qualified. fs0 is just as acceptable as /dev/fs0.
-a Deactivates quota limit checking for all GPFS file systems in the cluster. When used in
combination with the -g option, only group quota limit checking is deactivated. When used in
combination with the -u or -j options, only user or fileset quota limit checking, respectively, is
deactivated.
-g Specifies that only group quota limit checking is to be deactivated.
-j Specifies that only quota checking for filesets is to be deactivated.
-u Specifies that only user quota limit checking is to be deactivated.
-v Prints a message for each file system in which quotas are deactivated.
Exit status
0 Successful completion.
nonzero A failure has occurred.
Security
You must have root authority to run the mmquotaoff command.
GPFS must be running on the node from which the mmquotaoff command is issued.
Examples
1. To deactivate user quota limit checking on file system fs0, issue this command:
mmquotaoff -u fs0
To confirm the change, issue this command:
mmlsfs fs0 -Q
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