NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     quotaon, quotaoff - turn filesystem quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem [...]
     quotaon [-g] [-u] [-v] -a

     quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] filesystem [...]
     quotaoff [-g] [-u] [-v] -a

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     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  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.

     The options are as follows:

     -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    [Toc]    [Back]

     quota.user   at the filesystem root with user quotas
     quota.group  at the filesystem root with group quotas
     /etc/fstab   filesystem table

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     quota(1), quotactl(2), fstab(5), edquota(8),  quotacheck(8),
repquota(8)

HISTORY    [Toc]    [Back]

     The quotaon and quotaoff commands appeared in 4.2BSD.

OpenBSD      3.6                        December     11,     1993