mc quota set

Description

The mc quota set assigns a hard quota limit to a bucket beyond which MinIO does not allow writes.

Units of Measurement

The mc quota set --size flag accepts the following case-insensitive suffixes to represent the unit of the specified size value:

Omitting a suffix defaults to bytes.

Examples

Configure a Hard Quota on a Bucket

Use mc quota set with the --size flag to specify a hard quota on a bucket. Hard quotas prevent the bucket size from growing past the specified limit.

mc quota set TARGET/BUCKET --size LIMIT

• Replace TARGET with the alias of a configured MinIO deployment. Replace BUCKET with the name of the bucket on which to set the hard quota.
• Replace LIMIT with the maximum size to which the bucket can grow as an integer and, as desired, a suffix. For example, to set a hard limit of 10 Terabytes, specify 10t.

Syntax

mc quota set has the following syntax:

mc quota set TARGET --size LIMIT

mc quota set supports the following arguments:

TARGET

mc-cmd

Required

The full path to the bucket for which the command creates the quota. Specify the alias of the MinIO deployment as a prefix to the path. For example:

mc quota set play/mybucket --size 10Gi

--size

mc-cmd

Required

Sets a maximum limit to the bucket storage size. The MinIO server rejects any incoming PUT request whose contents would exceed the bucket’s configured quota.

For example, a hard limit of 10G would prevent adding any additional objects if the bucket reaches 10 gigabytes of size.

Global Flags

This command supports any of the global flags.

S3 Compatibility

This page preserves historical syntax. See the current mcli reference for supported commands and compatibility scope.