NAME¶
quota —
display disk usage and
limits
SYNOPSIS¶
quota |
[-ghlu]
[-f path]
[-v | -q |
-r] |
quota |
[-hlu]
[-f path]
[-v | -q |
-r] user ... |
quota |
-g [-hl]
[-f path]
[-v | -q |
-r] group ... |
DESCRIPTION¶
The
quota utility displays users' disk usage and limits. By
default only the user quotas are printed. Disk block usage and limits are
shown in 1024-byte blocks.
The following options are available:
- -f
path
- Only display quota information for the file system that
contains the specified path. This can be any file within a mounted file
system.
- -g
- Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a
member.
- -h
- "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte,
Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.
- -l
- Do not report quotas on NFS file systems.
- -q
- Print a more terse message, containing only information on
file systems where usage is over quota. The -q flag
takes precedence over the -v flag.
- -r
- Display the raw quota information as it appears in the
quota structure. Non-zero time values will also be displayed in
ctime(3) format. This option implies
-v and will override the -q flag.
- -u
- Print the user quotas. This is the default unless
-g is specified.
- -v
- Display quotas on file systems where no storage is
allocated.
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
-g flag and optional
group argument to view only the limits of groups of
which they are members.
The
quota utility tries to report the quotas of all mounted
file systems. If the file system is mounted via NFS, it will attempt to
contact the
rpc.rquotad(8) daemon on the NFS server. For UFS
file systems, quotas must be turned on in
/etc/fstab. If
quota exits with a non-zero status, one or more file systems
are over quota or the path specified with the
-f option does
not exist.
If the
-l flag is specified,
quota will not
check NFS file systems.
FILES¶
- quota.user
- located at the file system root with user quotas
- quota.group
- located at the file system root with group quotas
- /etc/fstab
- to find file system names and locations
SEE ALSO¶
quotactl(2),
ctime(3),
fstab(5),
edquota(8),
quotacheck(8),
quotaon(8),
repquota(8),
rpc.rquotad(8)
HISTORY¶
The
quota command appeared in
4.2BSD.