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QUOTA(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual QUOTA(1)
NAME
quota - display disk usage and limits
SYNOPSIS
quota [-ghlu] [-f path] [-v | -q | -r]
quota [-hlu] [-f path] [-v | -q | -r] user ...
quota -g [-hl] [-f path] [-v | -q | -r] group ...
DESCRIPTION
The quota utility displays users' disk usage and limits. By default only
the user quotas are printed. Disk block usage and limits are shown in
1024-byte blocks.
The following options are available:
-f path
Only display quota information for the file system that contains
the specified path. This can be any file within a mounted file
system.
-g Print group quotas for the group of which the user is a member.
-h "Human-readable" output. Use unit suffixes: Byte, Kilobyte,
Megabyte, Gigabyte, Terabyte and Petabyte.
-l Do not report quotas on NFS file systems.
-q Print a more terse message, containing only information on file
systems where usage is over quota. The -q flag takes precedence
over the -v flag.
-r Display the raw quota information as it appears in the quota
structure. Non-zero time values will also be displayed in
ctime(3) format. This option implies -v and will override the -q
flag.
-u Print the user quotas. This is the default unless -g is
specified.
-v Display quotas on file systems where no storage is allocated.
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 -g flag and
optional group argument to view only the limits of groups of which they
are members.
The quota utility tries to report the quotas of all mounted file systems.
If the file system is mounted via NFS, it will attempt to contact the
rpc.rquotad(8) daemon on the NFS server. For UFS file systems, quotas
must be turned on in /etc/fstab. If quota exits with a non-zero status,
one or more file systems are over quota or the path specified with the -f
option does not exist.
If the -l flag is specified, quota will not check NFS file systems.
quotactl(2), ctime(3), fstab(5), edquota(8), quotacheck(8), quotaon(8),
repquota(8), rpc.rquotad(8)
HISTORY
The quota command appeared in 4.2BSD.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 February 3, 2007 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11