QUOTAON
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NAME
quotaon
quotaoff
- turn filesystem quotas on and off
SYNOPSIS
quotaon
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
filesystem ...
quotaon
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
-a
quotaoff
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
filesystem ...
quotaoff
[-g
]
[-u
]
[-v
]
-a
DESCRIPTION
Quotaon
announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more
filesystems.
Quotaoff
announces to the system that the specified
filesystems should have any disk quotas
diskquotas turned off.
The filesystems specified must have entries in
/etc/fstab
and be mounted.
Quotaon
expects each filesystem to have 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
By default both user and group quotas are enabled.
Available options:
- -a
-
If the
-a
flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names,
quotaon / quotaoff
will enable/disable 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 enabled.
- -g
-
Only group quotas listed in
/etc/fstab
should be enabled/disabled.
- -u
-
Only user quotas listed in
/etc/fstab
should be enabled/disabled.
- -v
-
Causes
quotaon
and
quotaoff
to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.
Specifying both
-g
and
-u
is equivalent to the default.
FILES
- quota.user
-
at the filesystem root with user quotas
- quota.group
-
at the filesystem root with group quotas
- /etc/fstab
-
filesystem table
SEE ALSO
quota(1),
quotactl(2),
fstab(5),
edquota(8),
quotacheck(8),
repquota(8)
HISTORY
The
quotaon
command appeared in
BSD 4.2
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