NAME

quotacheck − file system quota consistency checker

SYNOPSIS

/etc/quotacheck [-v] [-p] [-P] filesystem ... 
/etc/quotacheck [-v] [-p] [-P] -a

DESCRIPTION

quotacheck examines each file system, builds a table of current disk usage, and compares this table against that stored in the disk quota file for the file system.  If any inconsistencies are detected, both the quota file and the current system copy of the incorrect quotas are updated. 

quotacheck expects each file system to be checked to have a file named quotas in the root directory.  If none is present, quotacheck reports an error and ignores the file system.  quotacheck is normally run at mount time from file /etc/rc.  See WARNINGS below. 

Options

quotacheck recognizes the following options:

-a Obtain list of file systems to check from /etc/checklist.  Only mounted rw type file systems with the quota option are checked. 

-v Indicate the calculated disk quotas for each user on a particular file system. 

-p Check file systems in parallel as allowed by equal values in the pass number field in /etc/checklist. 

-P Preen file systems, checking only those with invalid quota statistics (quotaoff and edquota commands can invalidate quota statistics as discussed in quota(5) — see (quotaoff(1M) and edquota(1M)). Also checks in parallel as in -p above. 

AUTHOR

Disk Quotas were developed by the University of California, Berkeley, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and HP. 

FILES

/etc/checklist default file systems

/etc/mnttab information about mounted file systems

directory/quotas quota statistics static storage for filesystem where directory is the file system root as specified to mount (see mount(1M)).

SEE ALSO

rc(1M), quota(5). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 9.0: August 1992