NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
DIAGNOSTICS
FILES
SEE ALSO

NAME

quota - display disk usage and limits

SYNOPSIS

quota [ ­n ] [ ­guv | q ]
quota [
­n ] [ ­uv | q ] user
quota [
­n ] [ ­gv | 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/fstab. For filesystems that are NFS­mounted a call to the rpc.rquotad on the server machine is performed to get the information.

OPTIONS

-n

Print info on numeric arguments e.g. uids and gids instead of users and groups

-g

Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member. The optional

-u

-v ­q

flag is equivalent to the default.

will display quotas on filesystems where no storage is allocated.

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

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

Only the super­user may use the -u flag and the optional user argument to view the limits of other users. Non­super­users 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 non­zero status, one or more filesystems are over quota.

FILES

quota.user
quota.group /etc/fstab

user quota file at file system root
group quota file at file system root
default filesystems

SEE ALSO

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