8.9. Enabling/Disabling Quotas

xfs_quota can be used to temporarily or permanently disable quotas on a filesystem using the following commands:

disable – Temporarily disable quota enforcement.
enable – Enable quota enforcement. Used to enable quotas if they have been disabled or the filesystem was mounted with qnoenforce.
off – Switch off quota management quotas can only be re-enabled by un-mounting and remounting the filesystem
- Limit information is preserved
remove – remove quota extents from a filesystem. All quota limits are destroyed.