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.\"	@(#)quota.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.Dd March 28, 2002
.Dt QUOTA 1
.Os BSD 4.2
.Sh NAME
.Nm quota
.Nd display disk usage and limits
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm quota
.Op Fl g
.Op Fl u
.Op Fl v | Fl q
.Nm quota
.Op Fl u
.Op Fl v | Fl q
.Ar user
.Nm quota
.Op Fl g
.Op Fl v | Fl q
.Ar group
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Quota
displays users' disk usage and limits.
By default only the user quotas are printed.
.Pp
Options:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl g
Print group quotas for the group 
of which the user is a member.
The optional
.Fl u
flag is equivalent to the default.
.It Fl v
.Nm quota
will display quotas on filesystems
where no storage is allocated.
.It Fl q
Print a more terse message,
containing only information
on filesystems where usage is over quota.
.El
.Pp
Specifying both
.Fl g
and
.Fl u
displays both the user quotas and the group quotas (for
the user).
.Pp
Only the super-user may use the
.Fl u
flag and the optional
.Ar user
argument to view the limits of other users.
Non-super-users can use the
.Fl g
flag and optional
.Ar group
argument to view only the limits of groups of which they are members.
.Pp
The
.Fl q
flag takes precedence over the
.Fl v
flag.
.Pp
.Nm Quota
reports the quotas of all the filesystems that have
a mount option file located at its root.
If
.Nm quota
exits with a non-zero status, then one or more filesystems
are over quota.
.Sh FILES
Each of the following quota files is located at the root of the
mounted filesystem.  The mount option files are empty files
whose existence indicates that quotas are to be enabled
for that filesystem.
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width .quota.ops.group -compact
.It Pa .quota.user
data file containing user quotas
.It Pa .quota.group
data file containing group quotas
.It Pa .quota.ops.user
mount option file used to enable user quotas
.It Pa .quota.ops.group
mount option file used to enable group quotas
.El
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm quota
command appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr quotactl 2 ,
.Xr edquota 8 ,
.Xr quotacheck 8 ,
.Xr quotaon 8 ,
.Xr repquota 8