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community.general.xfs_quota module – Manage quotas on XFS filesystems

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 4.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.xfs_quota.

Synopsis

• Configure quotas on XFS filesystems.

• Before using this module /etc/projects and /etc/projid need to be configured.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• xfsprogs

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
bhard string	Hard blocks quota limit. This argument supports human readable sizes.
bsoft string	Soft blocks quota limit. This argument supports human readable sizes.
ihard integer	Hard inodes quota limit.
isoft integer	Soft inodes quota limit.
mountpoint string / required	The mount point on which to apply the quotas.
name string	The name of the user, group or project to apply the quota to, if other than default.
rtbhard string	Hard realtime blocks quota limit. This argument supports human readable sizes.
rtbsoft string	Soft realtime blocks quota limit. This argument supports human readable sizes.
state string	Whether to apply the limits or remove them. When removing limit, they are set to 0, and not quite removed. Choices: present ← (default) absent
type string / required	The XFS quota type. Choices: user group project

Examples

- name: Set default project soft and hard limit on /opt of 1g
  community.general.xfs_quota:
    type: project
    mountpoint: /opt
    bsoft: 1g
    bhard: 1g
    state: present

- name: Remove the default limits on /opt
  community.general.xfs_quota:
    type: project
    mountpoint: /opt
    state: absent

- name: Set default soft user inode limits on /home of 1024 inodes and hard of 2048
  community.general.xfs_quota:
    type: user
    mountpoint: /home
    isoft: 1024
    ihard: 2048

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
bhard integer	the current bhard setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 1024
bsoft integer	the current bsoft setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 1024
ihard integer	the current ihard setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 100
isoft integer	the current isoft setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 100
rtbhard integer	the current rtbhard setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 1024
rtbsoft integer	the current rtbsoft setting in bytes Returned: always Sample: 1024

Authors

• William Leemans (@bushvin)

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