xref: /original-bsd/usr.sbin/quotaon/quotaon.8 (revision edc2ab72)
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3.\"
4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
5.\" Robert Elz at The University of Melbourne.
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8.\"     @(#)quotaon.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
9.\"
10.Dd
11.Dt QUOTAON 8
12.Os BSD 4.2
13.Sh NAME
14.Nm quotaon ,
15.Nm quotaoff
16.Nd turn filesystem quotas on and off
17.Sh SYNOPSIS
18.Nm quotaon
19.Op Fl g
20.Op Fl u
21.Op Fl v
22.Ar filesystem Ar ...
23.Nm quotaon
24.Op Fl g
25.Op Fl u
26.Op Fl v
27.Fl a
28.Nm quotaoff
29.Op Fl g
30.Op Fl u
31.Op Fl v
32.Ar filesystem Ar ...
33.Nm quotaoff
34.Op Fl g
35.Op Fl u
36.Op Fl v
37.Fl a
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39.Nm Quotaon
40announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more
41filesystems.
42.Nm Quotaoff
43announces to the system that the specified
44filesystems should have any disk quotas
45diskquotas turned off.
46The filesystems specified must have entries in
47.Pa /etc/fstab
48and be mounted.
49.Nm Quotaon
50expects each filesystem to have quota files named
51.Pa quota.user
52and
53.Pa quota.group
54which are located at the root of the associated file system.
55These defaults may be overridden in
56.Pa /etc/fstab .
57By default both user and group quotas are enabled.
58.Pp
59Available options:
60.Bl -tag -width Ds
61.It Fl a
62If the
63.Fl a
64flag is supplied in place of any filesystem names,
65.Nm quotaon Ns / Ns Nm quotaoff
66will enable/disable all the filesystems indicated in
67.Pa /etc/fstab
68to be read-write with disk quotas.
69By default only the types of quotas listed in
70.Pa /etc/fstab
71are enabled.
72.It Fl g
73Only group quotas listed in
74.Pa /etc/fstab
75should be enabled/disabled.
76.It Fl u
77Only user quotas listed in
78.Pa /etc/fstab
79should be enabled/disabled.
80.It Fl v
81Causes
82.Nm quotaon
83and
84.Nm quotaoff
85to print a message for each filesystem where quotas are turned on or off.
86.El
87.Pp
88Specifying both
89.Fl g
90and
91.Fl u
92is equivalent to the default.
93.Sh FILES
94.Bl -tag -width quota.group -compact
95.It Pa quota.user
96at the filesystem root with user quotas
97.It Pa quota.group
98at the filesystem root with group quotas
99.It Pa /etc/fstab
100filesystem table
101.El
102.Sh SEE ALSO
103.Xr quota 1 ,
104.Xr quotactl 2 ,
105.Xr fstab 5 ,
106.Xr edquota 8 ,
107.Xr quotacheck 8 ,
108.Xr repquota 8
109.Sh HISTORY
110The
111.Nm
112command appeared in
113.Bx 4.2 .
114