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quotaon(8)
NAME
  quotaon, quotaoff - turns quota enforcement on or off

SYNOPSIS
  /usr/sbin/quotaon [-guv] file_spec...

  /usr/sbin/quotaon -a	[-guv]

  /usr/sbin/quotaoff [-guv] file_spec...

  /usr/sbin/quotaoff -a	 [-guv]

OPTIONS
  -a  Turns on (with quotaon) or turns off (with quotaoff) quotas for all
      file systems identified in the /etc/fstab file as read/write with
      quotas.

  -g  Turns on or off group quotas only.

  -u  Turns on or off user quotas only.

  -v  Prints a message for each file system whose quotas are turned on or
      off.

OPERANDS
  file_spec
      Specifies one or more file systems.  Specify any file system by
      entering its full path name or its mount point. The full path name is
      the name entered in the file-spec field of the file system's entry in
      the /etc/fstab file.  The mount point is the name entered in the
      mnt_point field of the file system's entry in the /etc/fstab file.

      For UFS file systems, you can alternatively enter the name of a block
      device special file.  For example: /dev/disk/dsk3c.

      For AdvFS filesets, you can alternatively enter the name of a file
      domain, a pound sign (#), and the name of the fileset.  For example:
      root_domain#root.

DESCRIPTION
  The quotaon and quotaoff commands enable or disable user and group quotas
  that have been established using the edquota command. To turn the quotas on
  or off, the file systems specified must have the userquota and groupquota
  entries in the /etc/fstab file and be mounted at the time.

  quotaon and quotaoff must be run by a user with superuser authority.

  These commands expect each file system to have quota files named quota.user
  and quota.group in the root directory of the file system. (These default
  file locations may be overridden in the /etc/fstab file.)

  By default,  both user and group quotas are affected by the quotaon and
  quotaoff commands. Use the -g option to specify only group quotas or the -u
  option to specify only user quotas.

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

  The quotaon and quotaoff commands are used to manage user and group quotas:
  they are not used to manage AdvFS fileset quotas.  Use the chfsets command
  to set or clear fileset quotas.

  AdvFS always maintains user and group file and block usage in the quota
  files (quota.user and quota.group).  User and group quota limit information
  displays with the showfsets command even if quota enforcement is turned
  off.

  When a file system is unmounted, user and group quotas are disabled.	After
  a file system has been remounted, use the quotaon command to enable user
  and group quotas on the file system.

RESTRICTIONS
  You must be the root user to run the quotaon and quotaoff commands.

FILES
  /usr/sbin/quotaon
      Specifies the command path

  /usr/sbin/quotaoff
      Specifies the command path

  [setname_root]/quota.user
      Contains user quotas for filesets

  [setname_root]/quota.group
      Contains group quotas for filesets

  /etc/fstab
      Contains file system names and locations

SEE ALSO
  Commands: chfsets(8), showfsets(8), edquota(8), fsck(8), quota(1),
  quotacheck(8), repquota(8)

  Functions: quotactl(2)

  Files: fstab(4)

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