NAME

quotaon, quotaoff − turn file system quotas on and off

SYNOPSIS

/etc/quotaon [−v] filsys... 
/etc/quotaon [−v] −a
/etc/quotaoff [−v] filsys... 
/etc/quotaoff [−v] −a

Remarks

These commands are provided for compatibility only.  Their use is generally neither required nor recommended because mount(1M) and umount(1M) enable and disable quotas cleanly. See WARNINGS below for more information. 

DESCRIPTION

quotaon announces to the system that disc quotas should be enabled on one or more file systems.  filsys is the name of either the directory on which the file system is mounted or the block special device.  The file systems specified must have entries in /etc/checklist and be mounted at the time.  The file system quota file, named quotas, must be present in the root directory of each specified file system. 

When enabling quotas interactively after boot time, the quotacheck(1M) command should be run first (see Remarks above and WARNINGS below). 

quotaoff announces to the system that file systems specified should have any disc quotas turned off. 

Use mount(1M) to determine the current state of quotas on mounted file systems.

Options

The following options are recognized:

−v Obtains the filsys list from /etc/checklist of type rw with the quota option (see checklist(4)).

−a Generates a message for each file system affected. 

WARNINGS

Using quotaoff to disable quotas on a file system causes the system to discontinue tracking quotas for that file system, and marks the quota clean flag in the super block NOT_OK.  This, in turn, forces a quotacheck the next time the system is booted.  Since quotas are enabled and disabled cleanly by mount(1M) and umount(1M) anyway, use of quotaon(1M) and quotaoff(1M) are generally discouraged.

AUTHOR

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

FILES

/etc/checklist file system table

/etc/mnttab mount table

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

SEE ALSO

mount(1M), quota(5). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  HP-UX Release 8.05: June 1991