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7.14 How can I turn off quota checking?

Suggestions:

1] rmfn quota fileset.  This will still allow you to keep using quotas,
   as long as the nfs-server still has quota enabled, and is exporting it
   with all the quota stuff turned on, even though the HP itself might not
   have it.  Watch out tho, since this deletes /usr/bin/quota :)  So make
   a copy, if you still want to have the ability to do "quota -v" and
   stuff around.

2] mv /usr/bin/quota /usr/bin/quota_check.  cp /bin/true /usr/bin/quota.
   This will still make the login program do the quota-check, but at least
   it goes by very very quickly now (as opposed to actualy checking every
   single nfs-mount with quota, and so on.)  Then, just run quota_check
   whenever you want.

3] Remove execute permissions for /usr/bin/quota as in:
      $ chmod -x /usr/bin/quota
   This prevents quota from running.  It's also a self documenting flag
   in that a future system manager who tries to run /etc/quota will get
   the "can not execute" error message.

4] chmod -x /usr/bin/quote /etc/edquota
   This appears to turn quota's completely off (which is what I
   suspect the vast majority of people want) and not only speeds
   up the login process, but you don't get any annoying messages.

(thanks to Paul Hirose <pthirose@engr.ucdavis.edu>, and
 Alek O. Komarnitsky <alek@csc.com>)

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