disk quota exceeded error prevents writing to an XFS file system

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Issue

  • User is not able to write to the filesystem, error Disk quota exceeded.
  • Disk quota exceeded, unable to create new files.
  • How to modify disk quota limits?

  • podman fails with error copying system image ... : disk quota exceeded): exit status 1

    $ podman run  -i -t --rm ubi9:latest bash
...
Error: copying system image from manifest list: writing blob: adding layer with blob "sha256:xxx": processing tar file(open /usr/bin/dbus-broker-launch: disk quota exceeded): exit status 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • 7
    • 8
    • 9
  • XFS Filesystem with XFS Quotas enabled

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