Name

quotaon, quotaoff − turn file system quotas on and off

Syntax

/etc/quotaon [ option ... ] [ filesystem ]

/etc/quotaoff [ option ... ] [ filesystem ]

Description

The quotaon command informs the system that disc quotas should be enabled on one or more file systems. Specified file systems must have entries in /etc/fstab and be mounted. Quota files must be present in the root directory of the specified file systems and be named quotas.  The quotas file is created with quotacheck(.). The quota file is updated by edquota(.).

Options

The option −v causes quotaon to print a message for each file system whose quotas are enabled. The −a argument may be used in stead of a list of file systems. It causes quotaon to enable quotas on all file systems in /etc/fstab marked read-write. This option is normally used at boot time to enable quotas.

The quotaoff command informs the system that disc quotas should be disabled on one or more file systems. The −v option forces a verbose message for each file system affected. The −a option forces all file systems in /etc/fstab to have their quotas disabled.

Files

/etc/fstab File system table

See Also

setquota(2), fstab(5), edquota(8)
“Disk Quotas in a UNIX Environment,” ULTRIX Supplementary Documents, Volume 3: System Manager