Computer Science
quota(8) quota(8)
NAME
quota - display disk usage and limits
SYNOPSIS
quota [ -guv | q ]
quota [ -uv | q ] user
quota [ -gv | q ] group
DESCRIPTION
Quota displays users' disk usage and limits. By default
only the user quotas are printed.
-g Print group quotas for the group of which the user
is a member. The optional
-u flag is equivalent to the default.
-v will display quotas on filesystems where no storage
is allocated.
-q Print a more terse message, containing only infor-
mation on filesystems where usage is over quota.
Specifying both -g and -u displays both the user quotas
and the group quotas (for the user).
Only the super-user may use the -u flag and the optional
user argument to view the limits of other users. Non-
super-users can use the the -g flag and optional group
argument to view only the limits of groups of which they
are members.
The -q flag takes precedence over the -v flag.
Quota reports the quotas of all the filesystems listed in
/etc/fstab. For filesystems that are NFS-mounted a call
to the rpc.rquotad on the server machine is performed to
get the information. If quota exits with a non-zero sta-
tus, one or more filesystems are over quota.
FILES
quota.user located at the filesystem root with user quotas
quota.group located at the filesystem root with group quo-
tas
/etc/fstab to find filesystem names and locations
SEE ALSO
quotactl (2), fstab (5), edquota (8), quotacheck (8), quo-
taon (8), repquota (8)
Tue Jun 8 1993 1
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