Enabling and disabling quota ============================ This document is intended to demonstrate how one can enable and disable quota on a Gluster volume. **Step 1:** Create a '.conf' file with the following contents:: [quota] action=enable volname=10.70.41.236:1x2_vol Here, '1x2_vol' is the name of our volume and 10.70.41.236 is one of the hosts / nodes in the cluster. We'll name this file 'enable_quota.conf'. **Step 2:** Run this using:: gdeploy -c enable_quota.conf .. image:: images/enabling_disabling_quota/1.png **Step 3:** You can check whether quota has been enabled by checking volume info using:: $gluster vol info This command can be run on any of the machines on which the volume resides. .. image:: images/enabling_disabling_quota/2.png We can see that quota has been enabled on this volume. One may follow the following steps to disable quota on this volume. **Step 1:** Create a '.conf' file with the following contents:: [quota] action=disable volname=10.70.41.236:1x2_vol Here, '1x2_vol' is the name of our volume and 10.70.41.236 is one of the hosts / nodes in the cluster. We'll name this file 'disable_quota.conf'. **Step 2:** Run this using:: gdeploy -c disable_quota.conf .. image:: images/enabling_disabling_quota/3.png **Step 3:** You can check whether quota has been disabled by checking volume info using:: $gluster vol info This command can be run on any of the machines on which the volume resides. .. image:: images/enabling_disabling_quota/4.png