Computer Science
QUOTAON(8) QUOTAON(8)
NAME
quotaon, quotaoff - turn file system quotas on and off
SYNOPSIS
/usr/etc/quotaon [ -vug ] filesystem...
/usr/etc/quotaon [ -avug ]
/usr/etc/quotaoff [ -vug ] filesystem...
/usr/etc/quotaoff [ -avug ]
DESCRIPTION
quotaon
quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be
enabled on one or more file systems. The file system quota
files must be present in the root directory of the speci-
fied file system and be named quota.user for userquota or
quota.group for groupquota.
quotaoff
quotaoff announces to the system that file systems speci-
fied should have any disk quotas turned off.
OPTIONS
quotaon
-a All file systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write
with quotas will have their quotas turned on. This
is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.
-v Display a message for each file system where quotas
are turned on.
-u Manupulate user quotas. This is the default.
-g Manupulate group quotas.
quotaoff
-a Force all file systems in /etc/fstab to have their
quotas disabled.
-v Display a message for each file system affected.
-u Manupulate user quotas. This is the default.
-g Manupulate group quotas.
FILES
quota.user user quota file at the file system
root
quota.group group quota file at the file system
root
/etc/fstab default file systems
SEE ALSO
quotactl(2), fstab(5),
Tue Jun 8 1993 1
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