QUOTAON, QUOTAOFF(8,C)      AIX Commands Reference       QUOTAON, QUOTAOFF(8,C)



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quotaon, quotaoff



PURPOSE

Turns file system quotas on or off.

SYNTAX


           +------+   +--- filesystem ---+
quotaon ---|      |---| ^              | |---|
           +- -v -+   | +--------------+ |
                      +------- -a -------+

            +------+   +--- filesystem ---+
quotaoff ---|      |---| ^              | |---|
            +- -v -+   | +--------------+ |
                       +------- -a -------+


Warning: See restrictions, Chapter 18, AIX Programming Tools and Interfaces.

DESCRIPTION

The quotaon command announces to the system that disc quotas should be enabled
on one or more file systems.  The file systems specified must have entries in
/etc/filesystems and be mounted at that time.  The file system quota files must
be present in the root directory of the specified file system and be named
quotas.  The optional argument -v causes quotaon to print a message for each
file system where quotas are turned on.  If, instead of a list of file systems,
a -a argument is give to quotaon, all file systems in /etc/filesystems marked
read-write with quotas will have their quotas turned on.  This is normally used
at boot time to enable quotas, and is usually preceeded by running of
quotacheck.

The quotaoff command announces to the system that file systems specified should
have any disc quotas turned off.  As above, the -v forces a verbose message for
each file system affected; and the -a option forces all file systems in
/etc/filesystems to have their quotas disabled.

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

/etc/mtab         Mount table.
/etc/filesystems  File system table (default filesystems).





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RELATED INFORMATION

See the following commands:  "quota,"  "quotacheck," and  "fsck, dfsck."

See "setquota" subroutine in the AIX Operating System Technical Reference.


















































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