Monitoring Disk Quotas

Monitoring Disk Quotas

Periodically, check the records retained in the quota file for consistency with the actual number of blocks and files allocated to the user. Use the quotacheck command to verify compliance. It is not necessary to unmount the filesystem or disable the quota system to run this command, though on active filesystems, slightly inaccurate results may be seen. This command is run automatically at boot time by the /etc/init.d/quotas script if the quotacheck flag has been turned on with chkconfig. quotacheck can take a considerable amount of time to execute, so it is convenient to have it done at boot time.