NAME

quotaon, quotaoff − turn file system quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS

/usr/etc/quotaon [ −v ] filsys...

/usr/etc/quotaon [ −v ] −a

/usr/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] filsys...

/usr/etc/quotaoff [ −v ] −a

DESCRIPTION OF QUOTAON

Quotaon announces to the system that disk quotas should be enabled on one or more file systems.  The file systems specified must be mounted at the time.  The file system quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified file system and be named quotas . 

OPTIONS TO QUOTAON

−v Displays a message for each file system where quotas are turned on. 

−a Turns on quotas for all file systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write with quotas.  This option is normally used at boot time to enable quotas. 

DESCRIPTION OF QUOTAOFF

Quotaoff announces to the system that file systems specified should have any disk quotas turned off. 

OPTIONS TO QUOTAOFF

−a Disables the quotas for all file systems in /etc/fstab. 

−v Displays a message for each file system affected. 

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

FILES

quotasquota file at the file system root
/etc/mtabmounted file systems
/etc/fstabdefault file systems

SEE ALSO

quotactl(2), mtab(5), fstab(5)

4th Berkeley Distribution  —  15 April 1985