Disk Quotas
The Solaris disk quota system is based directly on the Berkeley UNIX quota system developed many years ago. It provides limits on the total size of the files owned by a user on a UFS file system, and the total number of files. There is a soft limit that causes warnings to be printed out, and a hard limit that cannot be exceeded. After a grace period the soft limit is also enforced, and the user must free enough space to go below the soft limit again to reset this timer.
When a UFS file system is exported over NFS, the quotas of the underlying file system are inherited by the NFS mount, and quotas work in basically the same way as they would on a local UFS disk. This is not true for other file systems such as Veritas VxFS, which provides ...
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