QUOTACHECK
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NAME
quotacheck
- filesystem quota consistency checker
SYNOPSIS
quotacheck
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
filesystem ...
quotacheck
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
-a
DESCRIPTION
Quotacheck
examines each filesystem,
builds a table of current disk usage,
and compares this table against that recorded
in the disk quota file for the filesystem.
If any inconsistencies are detected, both the
quota file and the current system copy of the
incorrect quotas are updated (the latter only
occurs if an active filesystem is checked).
By default both user and group quotas are checked.
Available options:
- -a
-
If the
-a
flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names,
quotacheck
will check all the filesystems indicated in
/etc/fstab
to be read-write with disk quotas.
By default only the types of quotas listed in
/etc/fstab
are checked.
- -g
-
Only group quotas listed in
/etc/fstab
are to be checked.
- -u
-
Only user quotas listed in
/etc/fstab
are to be checked.
- -v
-
quotacheck
reports discrepancies between the
calculated and recorded disk quotas.
Specifying both
-g
and
-u
is equivalent to the default.
Parallel passes are run on the filesystems required,
using the pass numbers in
/etc/fstab
in an identical fashion to
fsck(8).
Normally
quotacheck
operates silently.
Quotacheck
expects each filesystem to be checked to have a
quota files named
quota.user
and
quota.group
which are located at the root of the associated file system.
These defaults may be overridden in
/etc/fstab
If a file is not present,
quotacheck
will create it.
Quotacheck
is normally run at boot time from the
/etc/rc.local
file, see
rc(8),
before enabling disk quotas with
quotaon(8).
Quotacheck
accesses the raw device in calculating the actual
disk usage for each user.
Thus, the filesystems
checked should be quiescent while
quotacheck
is running.
FILES
- quota.user
-
at the filesystem root with user quotas
- quota.group
-
at the filesystem root with group quotas
- /etc/fstab
-
default filesystems
SEE ALSO
quota(1),
quotactl(2),
fstab(5),
edquota(8),
fsck(8),
quotaon(8),
repquota(8)
HISTORY
The
quotacheck
command appeared in
BSD 4.2
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