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QUOTA(1)							     QUOTA(1)



NAME
       quota - display disk usage and limits

SYNOPSIS
       quota [ -F format-name ] [ -guvsil | q ]
       quota [ -F format-name ] [ -uvsil | q ] user...
       quota [ -F format-name ] [ -gvsil | q ] group...

DESCRIPTION
       quota displays users' disk usage and limits.  By default only the user
       quotas are printed.

       quota reports the quotas of all the filesystems listed  in  /etc/mtab.
       For  filesystems that are NFS-mounted a call to the rpc.rquotad on the
       server machine is performed to get the information.

OPTIONS
       -F format-name
	      Show quota for  specified	 format	 (ie.  don't  perform  format
	      autodetection).	Possible  format names are: vfsold (version 1
	      quota), vfsv0 (version 2 quota),	rpc  (quota  over  NFS),  xfs
	      (quota on XFS filesystem)

       -g     Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member.
	      The optional group argument(s) restricts	the  display  to  the
	      specified group(s).

       -u     flag is equivalent to the default.

       -v     will  display  quotas  on filesystems where no storage is allo-
	      cated.

       -s     option will make quota(1) try to choose units for showing	 lim-
	      its, used space and used inodes.

       -i     ignore mountpoints mounted by automounter

       -l     report quotas only on local filesystems (ie. ignore NFS mounted
	      filesystems).

       -q     Print a more terse  message,  containing	only  information  on
	      filesystems where usage is over quota.

       -Q     Do  not  print  error  message  if connection to rpc.rquotad is
	      refused (usually this happens when rpc.rquotad is	 not  running
	      on the server).

       Specifying  both -g and -u displays both the user quotas and the group
       quotas (for the user).

       Only the super-user may use the -u flag and the optional user argument
       to view the limits of other users.  Non-super-users can use the the -g
       flag and optional group argument to view only the limits of groups  of
       which they are members.

       The -q flag takes precedence over the -v flag.

DIAGNOSTICS
       If  quota  exits	 with  a non-zero status, one or more filesystems are
       over quota.

FILES
       aquota.user  or	aquota.group
			   quota file  at  the	filesystem  root  (version  2
			   quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       quota.user  or  quota.group
			   quota  file	at  the	 filesystem  root  (version 1
			   quota, non-XFS filesystems)
       /etc/mtab	   default filesystems

SEE ALSO
       quotactl(2),   fstab(5),	  edquota(8),	quotacheck(8),	  quotaon(8),
       repquota(8)



								     QUOTA(1)


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  2. users
  3. which
  4. make
  5. more
  6. view
  7. groups
  8. file
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