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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide

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Change quota limits for a specific user

You can change limits for user quotas on a file system or quota tree.

Format

/quota/user {-fs | -fsName <value>} [-path <value>] {-userId <value> | -unixName <value> | winName <value>} set [-async] {-default | [-softLimit <value>] [-hardLimit <value>]}

Object qualifiers

Qualifier	Description
-fs	Specify the ID of the file system.
-fsName	Specify the name of the file system.
-path	Specify either of the following: If the user quota is for a file system, either do not use this qualifier, or set its value to /. If the user quota is for a quota tree, specify the quota tree path relative to the root of the file system.
-userId	Specify the user ID on the file system or quota tree.
-unixName	Specify the UNIX user name associated with the specified user ID.
-winName	Specify the Windows user name associated with the specified user ID. The format is: [<domain>\]<name>

Action qualifiers

Qualifier	Description
-async	Run the operation in asynchronous mode.
-default	Inherit the default quota limit settings for the user. To view the default limit, use the command: config -fs `<value>` -path `<value>` show If a soft or hard limit has not been specified for the user, the default limit is applied.
-softLimit	Specify the preferred limit on storage usage by the user. A value of `0` means no limitation. If the hard limit is specified and the soft limit is not specified, there will be no soft limitation.
-hardLimit	Specify the absolute limit on storage usage by the user. A value of `0` means no limitation. If the soft limit is specified and the hard limit is not specified, there will be no hard limitation. NOTE:The hard limit should be larger than the soft limit.

Example

The following command makes the following changes to the user quota for user 201 on file system res_1, quota tree path /qtree_1:

Sets the soft limit to 10 GB.
Sets the hard limit to 20 GB.

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /quota/user -fs res_1 -path /qtree_1 -userId 201 set -softLimit 10G -hardLimit 20G

Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

Operation completed successfully.