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quota(1)


NAME

  quota - displays disk usage and limits


SYNOPSIS

  quota [-aghGuUqv]

  quota [-ah] [-g] [groupname] [-qv]

  quota [-ah] [-G] [groupID] [-qv]

  quota [-ah] [-u] [username] [-qv]

  quota [-ah] [-U] [userID] [-qv]


OPTIONS

  -a  Displays quota information for all mounted file systems:	those in the
      /etc/fstab file and those mounted manually or with automount. The -q
      option takes precedence over the -a option.

  -g [groupname]
      When specified without the groupname argument, displays group quotas
      for groups of which you are a member. Displays group quotas for the
      group when you specify groupname.

  -G [groupID]
      When specified without the groupID argument, displays group quotas for
      groups of which you are a member. Displays group quotas for the group
      when you specify groupID.

  -h  Causes the numbers to be scaled and reported in a human readable form.
      The suffixes used are K (kilobyte), M (megabyte), G (gigabyte), T
      (terabyte), P (petabyte), and E (exabyte).

  -u [username]
      Displays only your user quotas (the default) when specified without the
      username argument.  Displays user quotas for the user when you specify
      username.

  -U [userID]
      Displays only your user quotas (the default) when specified without the
      userID argument.	Displays user quotas for the user when you specify
      userID.

  -q  Displays information only for file systems that have disk quotas and
      where usage is over quota. Takes precedence over the -v and -a options.

  -v  Displays quota information for all mounted file systems that are
      specified in the /etc/fstab file.	 Quota information is displayed for
      each file system whether or not quotas are enabled for it. The -q
      option takes precedence over the -v option.


DESCRIPTION

  The quota command displays disk space usage and limits. Disk quotas are
  displayed as 1 kilobyte blocks unless the -h option is specified, then they
  are displayed as  K (kilobyte), M (megabyte), G (gigabyte), T (terabyte), P
  (petabyte), and E (exabyte) scaled values.

  By default, only your user quotas are displayed.  If you use the -g or the
  -G option without an argument, the quota command displays group quotas for
  groups of which you are a member.

  Unless you use the -v option, the quota command reports only on file
  systems listed in /etc/fstab that have disk quotas and under which you have
  files. If quota exits with a status of 1, one or more file systems are over
  quota.  If quota exits with a status of 2, there are system errors.


NOTES

  The term file system represents either a UFS file system or an AdvFS
  fileset.

  Do not use both a user and a group option in the same command.


RESTRICTIONS

  You must be the root user to use the optional username or userID argument
  to view information about another user, or to use the optional groupname or
  groupID argument to view information about a group to which you do not
  belong.


FILES

  [filesystem]/quota.user
      Contains user quotas for each file system.

  [filesystem]/quota.group
      Contains group quotas for each file system.

  /etc/fstab
      Contains file system names and locations.


SEE ALSO

  edquota(8), quot(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8), quotaoff(8), repquota(8),
  quotactl(2), fstab(4)

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