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This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
Robert Elz at The University of Melbourne.
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@(#)quotacheck.8 6.6 (Berkeley) 06/24/90
quotacheck [ -g ] [ -u ] [ -v ] -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. The optional -g flag specifies that only group quotas listed in /etc/fstab should be checked. The optional -u flag specifies that only user quotas listed in /etc/fstab should be checked. 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. If the -v option is supplied, quotacheck will report discrepancies between the calculated and recorded disk quotas.
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.
quota.group at the filesystem root with group quotas
/etc/fstab default filesystems