NAME

quotaon, quotaoff − enable/disable filesystem quotas

SYNOPSIS

/etc/quotaon [ −v ] filesystems
/etc/quotaon [ −v ] −a
/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] filesystems
/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] −a

DESCRIPTION

Quotaon informs the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more filesystems.  The filesystems specified must have entries in /etc/fstab and be mounted at the time.  The filesystem quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified filesystem and be named “quotas.”

Quotaoff informs the system that filesystems specified should have any disk quotas turned off. 

OPTIONS

−a If the −a argument is given to quotaon instead of a list of filesystems, all filesystems in /etc/fstab marked read-write with quotas will have their quotas turned on.  This is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.  With quotaoff, the −a option disables quotas for all filesystems in /etc/fstab. 

−v Forces a verbose message for each filesystem affected. 

These commands update the status field of devices located in /etc/mtab to indicate when quotas are on or off for each filesystem. 

FILES

/etc/mtabmount table
/etc/fstabfilesystem table

SEE ALSO

setquota(2), mtab(5), fstab(5)

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  1 August 1985